![]() Greasebag,’ pummeled and kicked until Quoyle curled, hands over head, sniveling, on the linoleum.” brother Dick, the father’s favorite, pretended to throw up when Quoyle came into the room, hissed ‘Snotface, Ugly Pig, Warthog, Stupid, Stinkbomb. Proulx describes Quoyle’s childhood superbly in the novel’s opening pages, summing up years of misery in a few painfully vivid images: “. Proulx’s second novel, “The Shipping News,” is a black comedy about Quoyle, an endearing loser whose father used to toss him into brooks and lakes. For good measure, Proulx also landed a Guggenheim Fellowship. Critics called it “beautiful,” “mesmerizing” and “astonishingly accomplished.” Fellow authors honored her with the PEN/Faulkner Award, a $15,000 prize that had never been won by a woman. Before that, she had churned out free-lance articles about cider, lions, canoeing and mice she had written short stories for Esquire she had founded a monthly newspaper called Behind the Times she had raised three sons and divorced three husbands. ![]() ![]() Annie Proulx was already 57 when her first novel, “Postcards,” was published in 1992. ![]()
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