The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
US$5.92
Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. 2003. Scribner.
A darkly comic portrait of human life and possibility. Quoyle is a hopeless hack journalist working in New York. When his two-timing wife dies in a road accident, he retreats to his ancestral home on the coast of Newfoundland where he must confront the unpredictable forces of nature and society.