Shipping News by Annie Proulx Language:English Driven from her home by

Driven from her home by frightened villagers

aged bourbon

Dragons represent power

Kell is a smuggler

author of DEAD GIRLS CAN’T TELL SECRETS and THE SUMMER SHE WENT MISSING

Shipping News by Annie Proulx Language:English Driven from her home by[Scribner] Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family, and "a rare creation, a lyric page turner" (Chicago Tribune). At thirty six, Quoyle, a third rate newspaperman is wrenched violently out of his world when his two timing wife meets her just desserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland