E. Annie Proulx

Although she didn't start her career as a writer until she was in her 50s, in 1993 E. Annie Proulx became the first woman to win the prestigious PEN/Faulkner book award, for her debut novel Postcards. The following year she won a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for her novel The Shipping News. She is also the author of Accordion Times and several short stories. [Read more]

The Shipping News
Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1993 (PhP 120.00)
Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Winner of the 1993 National Book Award for Ficiton. Winner of the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. Winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award. At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts. 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 Quoyle's 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. A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family, "The Shipping News" shows why E. Anni Proulx is recognized as one of the most gifted and original writers in America today.