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The Shipping NewsWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx's The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third rate newspaper hack, with a "head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair features as bunched as kissed fingertips," is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx's The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a "head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips," is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Here, on desolate Quoyle's Point, in a house empty except for a few mementos of the family's unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives. Newfoundland is a country of coast and cove where the mercury rarely rises above seventy degrees, the local culinary delicacy is cod cheeks, and it's easier to travel by boat and snowmobile than on anything with wheels. In this harsh place of cruel storms, a collapsing fishery, and chronic unemployment, the aunt sets up as a yacht upholsterer in nearby Killick-Claw, and Quoyle finds a job reporting the shipping news for the local weekly, the Gammy Bird (a paper that specializes in sexual-abuse stories and grisly photos of car accidents). As the long winter closes its jaws of ice, each of the Quoyles confronts private demons, reels from catastrophe to minor triumph--in the company of the obsequious Mavis Bangs; Diddy Shovel the strongman; drowned Herald Prowse; cane-twirling Beety; Nutbeem, who steals foreign news from the radio; a demented cousin the aunt refuses to recognize; the much-zippered Alvin Yark; silent Wavey; and old Billy Pretty, with his bag of secrets. By the time of the spring storms Quoyle has learned how to gut cod, to escape from a pickle jar, and to tie a true lover's knot.Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 06/01/1994
ISBN: 9780671510053
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.85d
Award: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Honor Book
Review Citations: Outside 10/01/2008 pg. 38
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 10845 / Shipping News
Reading Level: 4.8 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 16
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Squeaky
Size: 8, Color: Black
They look incredible. But they're a little squeaky. Otherwise my husband loves the comfort. They go with any outfit
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Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2026
★★★★★ 5
These fit very nicely, are comfortable, and work for my wide feet!
Size: 12 Wide, Color: Brown
Once I learned while shoe shopping in my youth that I needed wide-sized shoes, I wasn't able to easily choose from any shoes I saw in the store. I usually have to go find the wide widths and have to deal with the limited styles they have. Shopping online has been hit and miss, too. Sometimes, shoes are advertised as wide width, but end up still being too narrow.
These shoes fit me just right. They were not too tight at the toes, gave good width at the arch, and the opening was large enough that I didn't have to undo every single lace just to get my foot in. They also look nice, and I'm sure will take a decent polish.
Also, note that this does say it's an Oxford shoe, but it does have the open lacing and is more of a derby-style shoe. This also helps with sizing for my wide feet. If I didn't already have a pair of black shoes, I'd look at picking one of these up.
My only reservation with these is that the soles are not dark-colored to complement a more formal style. I feel the white makes them a little more casual. The sole is also more transparent/opaque coloring at the heel and underneath, which you can kind of see-through, so keep that in mind. It's not fully clear, but is kind of transparent, which I was not expecting. I think it also shows where it picks up dirt as you wear it. Just more of a style cue one way or another.
As a reference, I buy the 4E wide and Extra Wides in New Balance and Skechers. I also have a hard time getting any good fit in Nike shoes.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2023
★★★★★ 5
Looks and feel good
Size: 10.5, Color: Black
Shoes look dressy but feel comfortable. They are stiff but very comfortable.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Well made and affordable
Size: 10.5, Color: Brown
Very comfortable, great price!!!!!!
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Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Very handsome shoe
Size: 7, Color: Brown
Beautifully made shoe. Comfortable, great fit. Very handsome on foot. Can wear with anything. Very pleased
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Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2026