His reporting develops as Quoyle's signature column. The Gammy Bird 's editor asks him to cover traffic accidents (reminding him of Petal's fate) and also the shipping news, documenting the arrivals and departures of ships from the local port. Quoyle finds work as a reporter for the Gammy Bird, the local newspaper in Killick-Claw, a small town. There, they move into Agnis's childhood home, an empty and abandoned house on Quoyle's Point. His paternal aunt, Agnis Hamm, convinces him to make a new beginning by returning to their ancestral home in Newfoundland. With selfish parents, an abusive brother, a cheating wife, and no stable job, Quoyle's life is falling apart. On her getaway, Petal and her lover are killed in a car accident the young girls are located by police and returned to Quoyle. Shortly after his parents' joint suicide, Quoyle's unfaithful and abusive wife, Petal Bear, leaves town with a lover and attempts to sell their daughters Bunny and Sunshine to sex traffickers. The story revolves around Quoyle, a newspaper reporter from upstate New York, whose father had emigrated from Newfoundland. It was adapted as a film of the same name which was released in 2001. National Book Award, as well as other awards. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the U.S. Annie Proulx and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1993. The Shipping News is a novel by American author E.
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