书名：The Shipping News真情快递/航运新闻 

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数730L 

作者：Annie Proulx 

出版社名称：Fourth Estate 

出版时间：1994 

语种：英文 

ISBN：9781857022421 

商品尺寸：12.8 x 3 x 19.8 cm 

包装：平装 

页数：368The Shipping News《真情快递/航运新闻》是由美国著名小说家安妮·普劳克丝所编写的一部小说，曾被授予普利策奖和美国国家图书奖。安妮·普劳克丝对人物的描写坦诚而真实，将生活中的琐事、真实的新闻报道与戏剧、喜剧及诗意元素融合到一起。全书将故事聚焦于一个从小就因父母的残暴管教而失去自尊的男子，随着情节发展，他逐渐找回了自尊，并开始迎接新生活。总而言之，这是一个关于醒悟和重建生活及自尊的故事。 Annie Proulx’s highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers – the remotest corner of far-flung Newfoundland. With ‘the aunt’ and his delinquent daughters – Bunny and Sunshine – in tow, Quoyle finds himself part of an unfolding, exhilarating Atlantic drama. ‘The Shipping News’ is an irresistible comedy of human life and possibility. Review ‘A very impressive achievement. So funny, so full of delights.’ --Guardian ‘As stark and ruggedly beautiful as the storm-battered coast of Newfoundland itself.’ --Sunday Telegraph ‘Ambitious and accomplished…The characterisation is rich, the dialogue both original and convincing.’ --Alan Massie, Scotsman 'A stunning novel.' --Observer 'To read “The Shipping News” is to yearn to be sitting in The Flying Squid Lunchstop, eating Seal Fin Curry, watching the icebergs clink together in the bay.' --The Times安妮·普劳克丝，美国著名小说家。1969年获佛蒙特大学文学学士学位，1973年获乔治·威廉姆斯大学硕士学位。当她56岁时，出版了自己的第1本小说《贺卡》，后来又因小说《真情快递》获得普利策文学奖。1997年在《纽约客》上发表短篇小说《断背山》，2005年被华人导演李安搬上银幕，风光无限。 Annie Proulxpublished her first novel 'Postcards' in 1991 at the age of 56. 'The Shipping News' won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award and the Irish Times International Prize. Her third novel, 'Accordion Crimes', was published in 1996. She is also the author of three short-story collections, 'Heart Songs' (1994), 'Close Range' (1999) and 'Bad Dirt' (2004). 'Brokeback Mountain' was made into an Oscar-winning film in 2005. 'Fine Just the Way It Is', her third collection of Wyoming short stories, was published in 2008. PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO CORPORATE COMMUNICATION PART TWO: CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS PART THREE: CORPORATE COMMUNICATION IN PRACTICE PART FOUR: SPECIALIST AREAS IN CORPORATE COMMUNICATION PART FIVE: NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN CORPORATE COMMUNICATION

Here is an account of a few years in the life of Quoyle, born in Brooklyn and raised in a shuffle of dreary upstate towns. Hive-spangled, gut roaring with gas and cramp, he survived childhood; at the state university, hand clapped over his chin, he camouflaged torment with smiles and silence. Stumbled through his twenties and into his thirties learning to separate his feelings from his life, counting on nothing. He ate prodigiously, liked a ham knuckle, buttered spuds. His jobs: distributor of vending machine candy, all-night clerk in a convenience store, a third-rate newspaperman. At thirty-six, bereft, brimming with grief and thwarted love, Quoyle steered away to Newfoundland, the rock that had generated his ancestors, a place he had never been nor thought to go. A watery place. And Quoyle feared water, could not swim. Again and again the father had broken his clenched grip and thrown him into pools, brooks, lakes and surf Quoyle knew the flavor of brack and waterweed. From this youngest son’s failure to dog-paddle the father saw other failures multiply like an explosion of virulent cells—failure to speak clearly; failure to sit up straight, failure to get up in the morning; failure in attitude; failure in ambition and ability; indeed, in everything. His own failure. Quoyle shambled, a head taller than any child around him, was soft. He knew it. “Ah, you lout,” said the father. But no pygmy himself. And brother Dick, the father’s favorite, pretended to throw up when Quoyle came into a room, hissed “Lardass, Snotface, Ugly Pig, Warthog, Stupid, Stinkbomb, Fart-tub, Greasebag,” pummeled and kicked until Quoyle curled, hands over head, sniveling, on the linoleum. All stemmed from Quoyle’s chief failure, a failure of normal appearance. A great damp loaf of a body. At six he weighed eighty pounds. At sixteen he was buried under a casement of flesh. Head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair ruched back. Features as bunched as kissed fingertips. Eyes the color of plastic. The monstrous chin, a freakish shelf jutting from the lower face.