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. Already picked himself for godfather''-but her terse prose seems perfectly at home on the rocky Newfoundland coast. Proulx routinely does without nouns and conjunctions-``Quoyle, grinning. 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. to recover from the terrors of their past lives. Killick-Claw may not be perfect, but it is a stable enough community for Quoyle and Co. 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.
previous 1 2 3 4 next sort by previous 1 2 3 4 next Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. 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. Books by Annie Proulx (Author of The Shipping News) Books by Annie Proulx Annie Proulx Average rating 3.89 261,923 ratings 18,945 reviews shelved 494,177 times Showing 30 distinct works. Proulx has followed Postcards, her story of a family and their farm, with an extraordinary second novel of another family and the sea.
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