The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

The Shipping News

Written byAnnie Proulx
Narrated byRobert Joy
Length5h08m
Release dateApril 14, 2000
Languageenglish
★★★☆ 3.8 (1 ratings)

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AuthorAnnie Proulx
NarratorRobert Joy
Runtime5h08m
PublishedApril 14, 2000
Rating★★★☆ 3.8 / 5 (1 ratings)
CategoriesLiterature & Fiction, Classics, Genre Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
FormatAudiobook (Digital)
PlatformAudible

About This Audiobook

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family, and "a rare creation, a lyric page-turner" (Chicago Tribune). At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman is wrenched violently out of his world...

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