Newfoundland is a country of coast and cove where the mercury rarely rises above 70 degrees, the local culinary delicacy is cod cheeks, and it's easier to travel by boat and snowmobile than on anything with wheels. Here, on desolate Quoyle's Point, in a house empty except for a few mementos of the family's unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a "head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair.features as bunched as kissed fingertips," is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts.Īn aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Winner of the Pulitzer 1994 Prize and the National Book Award
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