All of you that have followed this blog know of my love for Newfoundland - for the place and most of all for the inhabitants. Imagine my rapture when I discovered that the novel by Annie Proulx that I was reading, after the first 25 pages in New York, takes the leading characters back home to The Rock. From that point on Proulx's work is permeated with place, people and patois.
I had been looking around for a novel by Proulx after reading her short story in The New Yorker Summer Fiction Issue. At the public library I decided against her several volumes of Wyoming stories and chose The Shipping News because I was aware that it was an earlier award winning work. The book jacket announces it the winner of the U. S. National Book Award. That edition was apparently printed before it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The book is worthy. I am in awe.
"And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery" - E. Annie Proulx
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If you would like to see my collection of Carolina Lowcountry memories—"Magnolia Elegy: Place In the Edisto Fork," you can view the book trailer here, and see the book page here on the publisher's website. The book is also available from Amazon, B&N, and your independent local bookseller.
