In this lively dark comedy, a hapless man named Quoyle is grief-stricken after his no-good wife dies in a car crash. He packs up his dog, his children, and an ancient aunt and returns to the old family home in the town of Killick-Claw, on the coast of Newfoundland, where he gets a job with the local newspaper covering the shipping news. Gradually, ...
First published in 1994 and now reissued as a classic edition, a novel of human life and possibility in which one man, following the dramatic death of his wife, heads for the remotest part of Newfoundland, along with his 'aunt' and two daughters, and finds himself part of an unfolding Atlantic drama. From the author of POSTCARDS.
In this lively dark comedy, a hapless man named Quoyle is grief-stricken after his no-good wife dies in a car crash. He packs up his dog, his children, and an ancient aunt and returns to the old family home in the town of Killick-Claw, on the coast of Newfoundland, where he gets a job with the local newspaper covering the shipping news. Gradually, ...
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