Annie Proulx

The Shipping News

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Produktbeschreibung

E. Annie Proulx focuses on a Newfoundland fishing town in a tale about a third-rate newspaperman and the women in his life-- his elderly aunt and two young daughters-- who decide to resettle in their ancestral seaside home. The transformation each of the character undergoes following move is profound. A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family, "The Shipping News" enlightens readers to the powers of E. Annie Proulx's storytelling genius and her expert evocation of time and place. She is truly one of the most gifted and original writers in America today.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scribner
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 21mm x 14mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9780671510053
• ISBN-10: 0671510053
• Artikelnr.: 20957292

Autorenporträt

Annie Proulx is the author of eleven books, including the novels The Shipping News and Barkskins, and the story collection Close Range. Her many honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and a PEN/Faulkner award. Her story "Brokeback Mountain," which originally appeared in The New Yorker, was made into an Academy Award–winning film. Fen, Bog, and Swamp is her second work of nonfiction. She lives in New Hampshire.

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO CORPORATE COMMUNICATION Defining Corporate
Communication Introduction Scope and Definitions Chapter Summary Corporate
Communication in Contemporary Organizations Introduction Historical
Background Integrated Communication Drivers for Integrated Communication
Organizing Communication Chapter Summary PART TWO: CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS
Stakeholder Management and Communication Introduction Stakeholder
Management The Nature of Stakes and Stakeholders Stakeholder Communication
Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration Chapter Summary Corporate
Identity, Corporate Branding and Corporate Reputation Introduction
Corporate Identity, Image and Reputation Corporate Branding Aligning
Identity, Image and Reputation Chapter Summary PART THREE: CORPORATE
COMMUNICATION IN PRACTICE Communication Strategy Introduction The Process
of Communication Strategy The Content of Communication Strategy Chapter
Summary Strategic Planning and Campaign Management Introduction Planning
and Executing Programs and Campaigns Theories on Effective Messages and
Persuasion Chapter Summary Research and Measurement Introduction Research
and Evaluation Measuring Corporate Reputation Measuring Corporate Identity
Chapter Summary PART FOUR: SPECIALIST AREAS IN CORPORATE COMMUNICATION
Media Relations Introduction Journalism and News Organizations News and
Corporate Reputation Framing News Stories The New Media Landscape Chapter
Summary Internal Communication Introduction Defining Internal Communication
Internal Communication and Organizational Identification Voice, Silence and
Stimulating Employee Participation Social Media and Communities of Practice
Chapter Summary Issues Management and Public Affairs Introduction Defining
Issues Managing Issues Influencing Public Policy Chapter Summary Crisis
Communication Introduction Preparation for Crises Communication about a
Crisis Chapter Summary PART FIVE: NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN CORPORATE
COMMUNICATION Leadership and Change Communication Introduction Defining
Leadership and Change Communicating During a Change Effective Leadership
Communication Chapter Summary Corporate Social Responsibility and Community
Relations Introduction Defining Corporate Social Responsibility
Communicating About Corporate Social Responsibility Community Involvement
Programmes Chapter Summary

Rezensionen

Stephen Jones Chicago Tribune The Shipping News is that rare creation, a lyric page-turner.