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    A Study Guide for Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News"
    A Study Guide for Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News"
    A Study Guide for Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News"
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    A Study Guide for Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News"

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    A Study Guide for Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMay 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535818438
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      A Study Guide for Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News" - Gale

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      The Shipping News

      Annie Proulx

      1993

      Introduction

      Winner of the 1993 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Annie Proulx's novel The Shipping News is a stylistically distinct work that explores one man's search for a sense of identity, family, and home. The main character, known throughout the work by his last name, Quoyle, is depicted as the hapless son of cruel and unloving parents. After his tortuously unhappy marriage ends with his wife's death, Quoyle, accompanied by his aunt, takes his two young daughters to the remains of the family home in Newfoundland, Canada. Here he is bombarded with a family history largely unknown to him and unrelentingly unpleasant. Having nowhere else to go, Quoyle attempts to find his place in the town his distant relatives once called home. With the help of his aunt, Quoyle manages to find a job and to make the run-down ancestral home habitable. Despite Quoyle's sense of isolation, through his work at the local paper he begins to create a new version of himself, discovering that he has abilities he was previously unaware of, and that he has the capacity to foster new relationships, and even to fall in love again.

      Proulx explores the dynamics of these relationships and creates a distinct sense of place through the use of unconventional prose. Her language is poetic, her imagery startling, and her syntax (the arrangement of words and phrases in sentences) unique. Although Quoyle and his family are marked by misfortune, and their dark history is tainted with violence and aberrant behavior, Proulx injects hints of hopefulness throughout the novel.

      Author Biography

      Born on August 22, 1935, in Norwich, Connecticut, to George and Lois Proulx, Edna Annie Proulx (Proulx rhymes with true) was the first-born of five daughters. Proulx grew up in a variety of locations throughout New England as well as in North Carolina, as her father's career in textiles forced the family to move frequently. After studying at Colby College, in Waterville, Maine, Proulx completed her bachelor-degree studies at the University of Vermont, in Burling-ton, in 1969. The same year, she married James Hamilton Lang, with whom she would have four children. The couple divorced in 1990.

      In Montreal, Proulx attended Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University), where she earned her master's degree in 1973. She began a doctoral-degree program there as well but left the program before completing her dissertation. For a time, Proulx resided in Vermont, where she began a career as a freelance writer. At this time, she also began writing short fiction. Her first collection, Heart Song, and Other Stories, was published in 1988.

      Proulx then began work on a novel; Postcards was published in 1992. Having won critical praise for both works, she continued to write short fiction and novels. She published The Shipping News in 1993. The work won the National Book Award

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