Want to impress the hot stranger at the bar who asks for your take on 'Infinite Jest'? Dying to shut up the blowhard in front of you who’s pontificating on Cormac McCarthy’s “recurring road narratives”? Having difficulty keeping Francine Prose and Annie Proulx straight?
Tradition clashes with modernity in this unforgettable debut novel, set in a small Nova Scotia village in the early 20th century, that is reminiscent of the works of Annie Proulx and Chris Bohjalian.
Annie Proulx’s second novel, The Shipping News, was published in 1994,
and it remains her best known and most highly acclaimed novel to date.
It won the National Book Award for Fiction, the Irish Times
International Fiction Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it
was also made into a film.