The Shipping News: Annie Proulx (Used)

By (author): Annie Proulx. After his parents' suicides and his wife's death in a car crash, Quoyle — a struggling newspaperman descended from Newfoundland emigrants — moves with his two young daughters and his aunt to his ancestral home on Quoyle's Point. Taking a job at the local Gammy Bird newspaper covering the shipping news, he slowly rebuilds his life, uncovers his family's troubled history, and finds new love, in Annie Proulx's Pulitzer- and National Book Award-winning novel.