A darkly comic portrait of human life and possibility. Quoyle is a hopeless hack journalist working in New York. When his two-timing wife dies in a road accident, he retreats to his ancestral home on the coast of Newfoundland where he must confront the unpredictable forces of nature and society.National Book Award for Fiction and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Wonderfully original book, full of dark humour and quirky characters. The main story centres on a small time local newspaper in Newfoundland. I particularly liked the reporter on the 'international' desk who got his stories from listening to the BBC world service on an old radio in the newspaper office which he tuned-in using and old comb handle. He then translated them into Newfie speak along with his numerous spelling mistakes. . The Newfoundlanders locals (Newfies) are parodied with affection and accuracy, Annie Proulx has created memorable characters, and takes us vividly to live with them in their cold , bleak but strangely warming world.
This book will stay in my memory for along time, and I look forward to reading it again.
eight out of ten.
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