The Shipping News(Perennial Collection)
- 作者:Annie Proulx
- 出版社:HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS UK
- 出版日期:2008-02-04
- 語言:英文
- ISBN10:0007268327
- ISBN13:9780007268320
- 裝訂:平裝 / 384頁 / 19.8 x 12.8 cm / 普通級 / 單色印刷
蓓妲在一場車禍中意外地死了,就在她帶著女兒離家出走後不久。奎爾救出了險落狼爪的女兒邦妮,在哀慟與孤寂中努力想回到原本平靜的生活。葬禮上,他見到了從未謀面的姑姑艾格妮絲(茱蒂丹契飾),這個滿面風霜又堅強幹練的老太太,她說服早已心死的奎爾,帶著女兒和她一起回祖先的家鄉:殺舔爪漁村,重新尋回生命中遺失的那一塊拼圖。
殺舔爪,一個冰雪靄靄的化外之地,住著一群在困境中求生存的怪異鄉下人。奎爾一家人就住在面對海洋的岬角上,一棟破爛得幾乎擋不住冰雪狂風的小木屋,那是祖先留下的遺產;他在一家名叫「社交鳥」Gammy Bird的當地小報社裡,找到一個採訪撰寫「漁業新聞」的工作,與當地的居民有了互動;此外,他還意外地與一個獨自扶養智障兒子的神秘少婦薇蜜(茱莉安摩爾飾)發生戀情...對他來說,這是個處處存在著奇特難解謎團的地方。而在為報社寫文章的同時,奎爾開始一點一點深入這個小漁村的內在世界,無形中,也探掘出自己塵封冰凍已久的心靈。
在紐芬蘭,這個處處是美景,也處處都是困境的海角天堂,奎爾看見一個新世界,不堪回首的往日在這裡漸漸熔化,消散在他嶄新開闊的生命之中。
Annie Proulx’s highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer prize-winning novel, repackaged and promoted as part of the Perennial fiction promotion in 2008. Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers -- the remotest corner of far-flung Newfoundland. With ’the aunt’ and his delinquent daughters -- Bunny and Sunshine -- in tow, Quoyle finds himself part of an unfolding, exhilarating Atlantic drama. ’The Shipping News’ is an irresistible comedy of human life and possibility.