![]() There, they move into Agnis's childhood home, an empty and abandoned house on Quoyle's Point. His paternal aunt, Agnis Hamm, convinces him to make a new beginning by returning to their ancestral home in Newfoundland. With selfish parents, an abusive brother, a cheating wife, and no stable job, Quoyle's life is falling apart. On her getaway, Petal and her lover are killed in a car accident the young girls are located by police and returned to Quoyle. Shortly after his parents' joint suicide, Quoyle's unfaithful and abusive wife, Petal Bear, leaves town with a lover and attempts to sell their daughters Bunny and Sunshine to sex traffickers. The story revolves around Quoyle, a newspaper reporter from upstate New York, whose father had emigrated from Newfoundland. It was adapted as a film of the same name which was released in 2001. National Book Award, as well as other awards. ![]() It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the U.S. ![]() Annie Proulx and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1993. The Shipping News is a novel by American author E. ![]()
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