![]() ![]() The story centres on the life and times of a widower named ‘Quoyle’. The book is set in Newfoundland – pronounced Newf’n-LAND – the island off eastern Canada. For now, let’s stick with The Shipping News, without any major spoilers. How did I meet her? Where did this happen? We’ll come to that. ![]() I only know it spells her name because I stood at her elbow as she wielded her Biro. ![]() Her handwriting is so tiny, it’s almost indecipherable. My most prized copies, however, are the ones with her incy-wincy handwritten signature on the inside pages. As an older writer myself, this gives me indescribable comfort.Īnnie Proulx has published a great many books since then, all of which I display with pride in my bookcase. Her first novel, Postcards, was published in 1991, following a long writing apprenticeship. It was Annie Proulx’s second published novel. When The Shipping News was first published in 1993, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award, and the Irish Times International Prize.
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