by E. Annie Proulx

isbn: 0671510053
subject: Fiction and Literature
finished: 9/22/2002

Quoyle is a loser: trapped in a dull job and a pathetic shell of a marriage, the only good things in his life are his daughters Bunny and Sunshine. Then, a whirlwind of changes sends him and the children packing up to his ancestral home in Newfoundland with a long-lost Aunt. The bleak Atlantic coast with its down-to-earth people and ever-present danger from sea and weather has a profound effect on Quoyle; he begins to find himself, permitting him to succeed at his job, to make friends, and to become close to a window that he meets. The Shipping News is a warm, often funny book about people making a change for the better.