I finally got around to reading "The Shipping News" by Annie Proulx.
It took me a little while to adjust to her writing style, but I found that I really enjoyed her amusing descriptions of the characters and scenes in the novel. I didn't have to read very long before I found myself quite interested in the fate of Quoyle and his family. I'll definitely check out some other books that she has written.
There were a lot of lines I really enjoyed, but perhaps the last paragraph in the book was the most haunting.
"For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught under the shadow of a hand on its back, that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery."
Annie Proulx, "The Shipping News"
