![]() ![]() Already picked himself for godfather''-but her terse prose seems perfectly at home on the rocky Newfoundland coast. Proulx routinely does without nouns and conjunctions-``Quoyle, grinning. But the novel is much more than Quoyle's story: it is a moving evocation of a place and people buffeted by nature and change. to recover from the terrors of their past lives. Killick-Claw may not be perfect, but it is a stable enough community for Quoyle and Co. ![]() There, Quoyle finds a job writing about car crashes and the shipping news for The Gammy Bird, a local paper kept afloat largely by reports of sexual abuse cases and comical typographical errors. ![]() The fulcrum is Quoyle, a patient, self-deprecating, oversized hack writer who, following the deaths of nasty parents and a succubus of a wife, moves with his two daughters and straight-thinking aunt back to the ancestral manse in Killick-Claw, a Newfoundland harbor town of no great distinction. Proulx has followed Postcards, her story of a family and their farm, with an extraordinary second novel of another family and the sea. ![]()
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