{"product_id":"the-shipping-news-0671510053","title":"The Shipping News","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0671510053\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e E. Annie Proulx\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner 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 when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in Quoyles struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his family cobble up new lives, Quoyle confronts his private demons-and the unpredictable forces of nature and society-and begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery.The Shipping News is charged with sardonic wit-alive, funny, a little threatening: packed with brilliantly original imagesand now and then, a sentence that simply takes your breath away (USA TODAY).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWinner 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52197106254112,"sku":"NEW0671510053","price":9.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81GoCgmFrdL.jpg?v=1786960119","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-shipping-news-0671510053","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}