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Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1994
National Book Award, Fiction, 1994
At 36, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife gets her just desserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his family cobble up new lives, Quoyle confronts his private demons - and the unpredictable forces of nature and society - and begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery.
A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family, The Shipping News demonstrates why Annie Proulx is recognized as one of the most gifted and original writers in America today.
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"Bird Cloud” is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and 400-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. Proulx also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope
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Craft vs. History
- De Drinker en 06-20-11
De: Annie Proulx
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Creative Calling
- Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life
- De: Chase Jarvis
- Narrado por: Chase Jarvis
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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Life isn’t about “finding” fulfillment and success - it’s about creating it. Why then has creativity been given a back seat in our culture? No longer. Creativity is a force inside every person that, when unleashed, transforms our lives and delivers vitality to everything we do. Establishing a creative practice is therefore our most valuable and urgent task - as important to our well-being as exercise or nutrition. The good news? Renowned artist, author, and CreativeLive founder, Chase Jarvis, reminds us that creativity isn't a skill - it's a habit available to everyone.
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Basic motivation
- De kimberly en 12-18-19
De: Chase Jarvis
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A Summons to Memphis
- De: Peter Taylor
- Narrado por: Boyd Gaines
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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Born in 1917, Tennessee author Peter Taylor won the Pulitzer Prize for this exceptional work of literature. The well-to-do Carver family moves to Memphis from Nashville, where they become embroiled in a domestic dispute over the widower patriarch's decision to remarry.
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Not at all interesting
- De Nichole en 06-01-09
De: Peter Taylor
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Couples
- A Novel
- De: John Updike
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
- Duración: 18 h y 42 m
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The provocative novel about sex in suburbia, striking in its complete sexual frankness and rightly praised as an artful, seductive, savagely graphic portrayal of love, marriage and adultery in America.
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This book made me feel replete
- De LH en 01-10-24
De: John Updike
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Amiable with Big Teeth
- A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem
- De: Claude McKay, Brent Hayes Edwards - editor, Jean-Christophe Cloutier - editor
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
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The unexpected discovery in 2009 of a completed manuscript of Claude McKay's final novel was celebrated as one of the most significant literary events in recent years. Building on the already extraordinary legacy of McKay's life and work, this colorful, dramatic novel centers on the efforts by Harlem intelligentsia to organize support for the liberation of fascist-controlled Ethiopia, a crucial but largely forgotten event in American history.
De: Claude McKay, y otros
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Dogeaters
- De: Jessica Hagedorn
- Narrado por: Ramon De Ocampo, Mia Katigbak, Rona Figueroa, y otros
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Dogeaters follows a diverse set of characters through Manila, each exemplifying the country’s sharp distinctions between social classes. Celebrated novelist and playwright Jessica Hagedorn effortlessly shifts from the capital’s elite to the poorest of the poor. From the country’s president and first lady to an idealist reformer, from actors and radio DJs to prostitutes, seemingly unrelated lives become intertwined.
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The Adventures of Augie March
- De: Saul Bellow
- Narrado por: Tom Parker
- Duración: 22 h y 13 m
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Augie is a poor but exuberant boy growing up in Chicago during the Depression. While his friends all settle into chosen professions, Augie demands a special destiny. He tests out a wild succession of occupations, proudly rejecting each as too limiting - until he tangles with the glamorous perfectionist Thea.
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THAT part of the Universe visible from Chicago!
- De Darwin8u en 05-09-12
De: Saul Bellow
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The Power of the Dog
- A Novel
- De: Thomas Savage, Annie Proulx - afterword
- Narrado por: Chad Michael Collins, Annie Proulx
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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Set in the wide-open spaces of the American West, The Power of the Dog is a stunning story of domestic tyranny, brutal masculinity, and thrilling defiance from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in American literature. The novel tells the story of two brothers—one magnetic but cruel, the other gentle and quiet—and of the mother and son whose arrival on the brothers’ ranch shatters an already tenuous peace.
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Abrupt Ending and Hard to Follow Story
- De Trevor en 09-08-21
De: Thomas Savage, y otros
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The Salt Eaters
- De: Toni Cade Bambara
- Narrado por: Mia Ellis
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
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A community of Black faith healers witness an event that will change their lives forever in this novel set in a fictional city in the American South. Though they all united in their search for the healing properties of salt, some of them are centered, some are off-balance; some are frightened, and some are daring. From the men who live off welfare women to the mud mothers who carry their children in their hides, the novel brilliantly explores the narcissistic aspect of despair and the tremendous responsibility that comes with physical, spiritual, and mental well-being.
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Healing from Trauma
- De Andre en 11-27-22
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The Stone Diaries
- De: Carol Shields, Penelope Lively - introduction
- Narrado por: Deborah Drakeford
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill Flett drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood, and old age, bewildered by her inability to understand her own role in the unsettled decades of the twentieth century. At last, reflecting on her unobserved and unconventional life, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography.
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Stone diaries
- De karl o schmidt en 05-25-24
De: Carol Shields, y otros
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East Goes West
- De: Younghill Kang, Alexander Chee - foreword, Sunyoung Lee - editor and afterword
- Narrado por: Song Yee
- Duración: 16 h y 26 m
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Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States with nothing but four dollars and a suitcase full of Shakespeare to his name, the young, idealistic Chungpa Han arrives in a New York teeming with expatriates, businessmen, students, scholars, and indigents. Struggling to support his studies, he becomes a traveling salesman, a domestic worker, and a farmer, and observing along the way the idealism, greed, and shifting values of the industrializing 20th century. East Goes West casts a sharply satirical eye on the demands and perils of assimilation.
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Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
- De: Oscar Zeta Acosta
- Narrado por: Henry Levya
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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Authored with uninhibited candor and manic energy, this audiobook is Acosta's own account of coming of age as a Chicano in the psychedelic '60s, of taking on impossible cases while breaking all tile rules of courtroom conduct, and of scrambling headlong in search of a personal and cultural identity. It is a landmark of contemporary Hispanic American literature, at once ribald, surreal, and unmistakably authentic.
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Beautiful
- De Nacho macanas en 11-16-20
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- Kelly
- 12-28-18
I think I have now traveled to Newfoundland!
Annie Proulx's Pulitzer winner is so vivid and unique. The descriptions of the culture and the landscape of Newfoundland was tangible and beautiful. I could feel the cold wind in the winter. I could taste the fish. I could hear the flat, nasal accents of the region. Everything about this book makes you feel like you have actually been to the cliffsides of the small seaside villages in the arctic. I love when a book transports me, and this one did. This is a new favorite.
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- Cornelia Young
- 06-23-16
The best
This is one of the best books I've ever read. Annie Proulx doesn't give shallow descriptions of anything or anybody. It is rich and textured. And in the end hopeful. Loved Paul Hecht's narration and good Newfie accents. It comes to life and you can picture all of it. Plus you learn some nautical stuff too.
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- Abby Sherlock
- 04-19-18
best narrator!!
what a wonderful story. i love the way Annie Proulx writes, it makes your imagination run with the sentences without hesitation. this narrator is my favorite so far, the way he does the childrens voices made me laugh out loud many times.
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- R. Rodriguez
- 03-11-23
Strange but compelling
We’re reading, but I cant quite tell you why. Setting, style, different. it just is.
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- Lela Roby
- 02-09-18
original and captivating
Great narrator, switching voices and accents. Interesting story and characters. Really good ending, as well.
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- Wendy Sparks
- 09-03-16
The best!!
Would you consider the audio edition of The Shipping News to be better than the print version?
I liked them both.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Quoil.
Which character – as performed by Paul Hecht – was your favorite?
all of them
If you could take any character from The Shipping News out to dinner, who would it be and why?
don't know
Any additional comments?
Really excellent from start to finish...Canadian writing is the best.
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- Gloria Crowe
- 05-20-23
The Shipping News
Excellent narration and story. This was one of those listening experiences that I was sorry to have come to an end.
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- Zeno
- 02-06-24
A curiously wonderful read/listen
I read this novel twenty years ago and didn't see it - just didn't. Thought, strange story, slow, meanders in odd ways and into odd places. Characters quirky, sure, but story? Bits here and there, lots of detail, but nothing much happening. Twenty years ago it literally annoyed me.
Now I've read it a second time ... and was blown away. Words strung together in wonderous ways. How could I have not seen it before? Magical concoctions, phrases like gems, metaphors of sheer beauty, imagery, imagination ... what can I say, read it!
PS: And do not watch the movie - not before, not after - terrible stuff.
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- Jannali
- 05-17-15
Not bad
I really liked the narrator, some male performers can't do female characters well but this narrator didn't bother me for once. I really love the movie of this book so perhaps I am biased, but I enjoyed the story. I felt Quoyle was a very relatable character with all his insecurities and uncertainties about life.
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- steven eikenbery
- 10-04-20
Love and land captured in crystal clarity.
The long Icy journey of love and a loving image of Newfoundland unfolds to the reader like the incoming tide. Harsh and beautiful this story will capture and imprison the reader into each page. Enjoy!
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