The Shipping News

Name: The Shipping News
Author: Annie Proulx

by Annie Proulx

Novel about journalist settling in Newfoundland and finding unexpected love

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Annie Proulx

Annie Proulx is an American novelist and short story writer known for her spare, unsentimental prose and her vivid portraits of rural American life. Her novel The Shipping News won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and her short story Brokeback Mountain was adapted into an acclaimed film.

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