FIRST EDITION OF THE SHIPPING NEWS, SIGNED BY E. ANNIE PROULX
PROULX, E. Annie. The Shipping News. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, (1993). Octavo, original half green cloth, original dust jacket.
First edition, signed on the title page by E. Annie Proulx.
This book, about a talentless newspaper reporter named Quoyle who relocates to Newfoundland with his two troubled daughters, won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. “The Shipping News is an exhilarating book brimming with ideas, stories, places and people— the narrative can barely contain them all. Proulx is that rare thing, a writer suffused with the joy of life in spite of its tragedies” (Parker, 672).
A fine signed copy.