The Shipping News Winnaar van de Pulitzer Prize 1994

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  • 9781841150598
  • 01 oktober 1999
  • 416 pagina's
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Annie Proulx

"Edna Ann Proulx (/ˈpruː/; born August 22, 1935) is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx.

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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.

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  • Do not miss this novel

    This warm novel from 1993 became an international bestseller and won many prizes. It was AP’s second novel after her successful, prizewinning debut “Post Cards”. It is about the return of the insecure, incompetent, recently-widowed but loveable giant Quoyle (Q), a third-rate journalist from the state of New York, to Canada’s Newfoundland with his daughters Sunshine and Bunny (4 and 6) and his elderly but energetic aunt Agnis. They find the ancestral house where Agnis was born in a salvageable shape, despite 50+ years of total neglect.
    Thanks to a former colleague, Q joins the local newspaper, which has a bizarre staff, such as the shipwrecked Englishman Nutbeem, in charge of foreign affairs and sex crimes. The paper also has plenty of (fake) ads and a faithful following of 17.000 subscribers. Aunt Agnis re-starts her old trade as furniture upholsterer. With Q’s insurance money from his wayward wife Petal’s fatal car crash, the quartet embarks on a new life. They slowly and surely integrate into this weird, cold and coastal fishing area. When Q hears at the age of 36 for the first time someone say he has done something well, he quickly overcomes other blockages, like boating on open sea (he cannot swim), do roof work, clean out codfish.
    This book excels in terms of local history, -hardship, -versatility, and opinions about the weather and government policy about its fishing quotas and regional investment policy. Annie Proulx’s stories and novels are situated in hardship communities in Newfoundland, Wyoming, New England. Her plotting skills, sense of humor and drama in 39 chapters in this novel are a feast for readers. But her eye for detail make her work challenging for all but the very best translators.

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  • Goed boek over een vrij onbekende plek. Mooie film erbij.

    Een grijs stadje ver van de bewoonde wereld is nou niet echt een setting waar je een boek over leest. Ik vond het boek wel mooi, maar vooral omdat de film erbij ook een aanrader is (met een rol voor Kevin Spacey). De hoofdpersoon Quoyle sprak me vooral aan, want hij is eerst een stille man die zijn vrouw vreemd laat gaan en niet voor zichzelf durft op te komen. Hij heeft ook niet een geweldige baan, maar naarmate het verhaal vordert, verandert dit en wordt Quoyle een zelfstandige, ambitieuze man. Die verandering die je als lezer meebeleeft is interessant.

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  • lezen!

    Positieve punten

    • Spannend
    • Grappig
    • Fantasierijk

    boeiend, goed geschreven

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