出版社/著者からの内容紹介
自分を裏切った妻に事故死され父祖の地に戻った新聞記者クオイル。娘2人と叔母を伴い、人生をやり直そうと…。人間の再生をモチーフに描く感動作。オスカー俳優ケビン・スペイシー主演で映画化。
内容（「BOOK」データベースより）
クオイルは不器用な三十男。三流新聞を解雇され、浮気をし放題の性悪女の女房は事故で死んだ。父母も借金を抱え自殺。彼は人生をやり直すために二人の娘たちと唯一の血縁の叔母を伴い、父祖の地ニューファンドランドへ渡る。そこには一族の名のついた岬があり、叔母が昔捨てた家があった。クオイルは船の情報‐港湾(シッピング)ニュースを書く記者として雇われ、島の生活を始める…。ピュリッツアー賞、全米図書賞W受賞。
内容（「MARC」データベースより）
クオイルは不器用な三十男。三流新聞社には解雇され、結婚した女は浮気し放題の挙句に事故死…。彼は人生をやり直すため、残された2人の娘と共に父祖の地ニューファンドランドへ。厳しい辺境の海と悲しく愛しい人生のドラマ。
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Amazon.com
In this touching and atmospheric novel set among the fishermen of Newfoundland, Proulx tells the story of Quoyle. From all outward appearances, Quoyle has gone through his first 36 years on earth as a big schlump of a loser. He's not attractive, he's not brilliant or witty or talented, and he's not the kind of person who typically assumes the central position in a novel. But Proulx creates a simple and compelling tale of Quoyle's psychological and spiritual growth. Along the way, we get to look in on the maritime beauty of what is probably a disappearing way of life.
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From Publishers Weekly
Proulx has followed Postcards , her story of a family and their farm, with an extraordinary second novel of another family and the sea. The fulcrum is Quoyle, a patient, self-deprecating, oversized hack writer who, following the deaths of nasty parents and a succubus of a wife, moves with his two daughters and straight-thinking aunt back to the ancestral manse in Killick-Claw, a Newfoundland harbor town of no great distinction. There, Quoyle finds a job writing about car crashes and the shipping news for The Gammy Bird , a local paper kept afloat largely by reports of sexual abuse cases and comical typographical errors. Killick-Claw may not be perfect, but it is a stable enough community for Quoyle and Co. to recover from the terrors of their past lives. But the novel is much more than Quoyle's story: it is a moving evocation of a place and people buffeted by nature and change. Proulx routinely does without nouns and conjunctions--"Quoyle, grinning. Expected to hear they were having a kid. Already picked himself for godfather"--but her terse prose seems perfectly at home on the rocky Newfoundland coast. She is in her element both when creating haunting images (such as Quoyle's inbred, mad and mean forbears pulling their house across the ice after being ostracized by more God-fearing folk) and when lyrically rendering a routine of gray, cold days filled with cold cheeks, squidburgers, fried bologna and the sea.
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Book Description
E. Annie Proulx focuses on a Newfoundland fishing town in a tale about a third-rate newspaperman and the women in his life -- his elderly aunt and two young daughters -- who decide to resettle in their ancestral seaside home. The transformation each of the character undergoes following move is profound. A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family, The Shipping News enlightens readers to the powers of E. Annie Proulx's storytelling genius and her expert evocation of time and place. She is truly one of the most gifted and original writers in America today.
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From the Publisher, Simon & Schuster
E. Annie Proulx focuses on a Newfoundland fishing town in a tale about a third-rate newspaperman and the women in his life -- his elderly aunt and two young daughters -- who decide to resettle in their ancestral seaside home. The transformation each of the character undergoes following move is profound. A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family, The Shipping News enlightens readers to the powers of E. Annie Proulx's storytelling genius and her expert evocation of time and place. She is truly one of the most gifted and original writers in America today.
THE SHIPPING NEWS:
Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Winner of the 1993 National Book Award for Fiction
Winner of the Irish Times International Fiction Prize
Winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award
Other Books With Reading Group Guides
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著者について
Annie Proulx is the author of eight books, including the novel
The Shipping News and the story collection
Close Range. Her many honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and a PEN/Faulkner award. Her story ?Brokeback Mountain,? which originally appeared in
The New Yorker, was made into an Academy Award-winning film. Her most recent book is
Fine Just the Way It Is. She lives in
Wyoming.
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著者略歴 (「BOOK著者紹介情報」より)
プルー,E.アニー
1935年、アメリカ・コネチカット州生まれ。雑誌の実用記事のライターを長くしたのち、短編小説を数作発表。三人の息子を育て、独立させ、50代から本格的な執筆活動を始める。’88年短編小説集“Heart Songs and Other Srories”でデビュー。’92年“Postcards”刊行、’93年同書でフォークナー賞受賞。同じく’93年、2作目の長編である本書で全米図書賞、’94年のピュリッツアー賞を受賞(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです)
