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The Shipping NewsWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx's The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third rate newspaper hack, with a "head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair features as bunched as kissed fingertips," is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx's The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a "head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips," is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Here, on desolate Quoyle's Point, in a house empty except for a few mementos of the family's unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives. Newfoundland is a country of coast and cove where the mercury rarely rises above seventy degrees, the local culinary delicacy is cod cheeks, and it's easier to travel by boat and snowmobile than on anything with wheels. In this harsh place of cruel storms, a collapsing fishery, and chronic unemployment, the aunt sets up as a yacht upholsterer in nearby Killick-Claw, and Quoyle finds a job reporting the shipping news for the local weekly, the Gammy Bird (a paper that specializes in sexual-abuse stories and grisly photos of car accidents). As the long winter closes its jaws of ice, each of the Quoyles confronts private demons, reels from catastrophe to minor triumph--in the company of the obsequious Mavis Bangs; Diddy Shovel the strongman; drowned Herald Prowse; cane-twirling Beety; Nutbeem, who steals foreign news from the radio; a demented cousin the aunt refuses to recognize; the much-zippered Alvin Yark; silent Wavey; and old Billy Pretty, with his bag of secrets. By the time of the spring storms Quoyle has learned how to gut cod, to escape from a pickle jar, and to tie a true lover's knot.Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 06/01/1994
ISBN: 9780671510053
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.85d
Award: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Honor Book
Review Citations: Outside 10/01/2008 pg. 38
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 10845 / Shipping News
Reading Level: 4.8 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 16
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★★★★★ 5
Perfect for our purpose (Tricks)
Size: Newspaper 4 PCS
Perfect for tricks-related interactions (we have them inside a mailbox our dog opens… then he retrieves the news)
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Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2025
★★★★★ 1
Beware of these crinkle plastic filler!
Size: Newspaper 4 PCS
3:09 handed to her.. 3:13 (4 minutes) taken away from her.. chewing on the plastic inner sheet filler...
Not good gor medium to larger dogs! Nothing more than a thin satin pillow sheet with crinkle plastic paper inside that can choke your dog if not monitored!
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Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Dog toy
Size: Newspaper 4 PCS
Dog toys cute and love the paper
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Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2025
★★★★★ 1
Thin dog doesn't use it no filling its flat
Size: Poker 3 PCS
Suck suck suck
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Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2026
★★★★★ 5
This is a great gift for our dog, but thank goodness she doesn't read.
Size: Newspaper 4 PCS
My puppy loves toys with crackling noises and I purchased these crackling papers. These are well sewn together, double sided and I have not had any problem with these tearing or shredding by her sharp baby teeth. On looking at the "paper" it seems to have articles for a mother of a human baby. The articles have many misspellings and are funny because of that. Since my puppy doesn't have dyslexia, she doesn't seem to notice the errors and enjoys playing with these and dragging them around our home.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2024