The Shipping News

Basically this - really picks up towards the end https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11938852

Newfoundland, as brutal and comforting as the sea itself.

Battled hard against writing style. Finished. Thought story good despite everything.

I really enjoyed the distinctive voice of this book. Quoyle (via Proulx) conveys so much with such terse little sentences. With a different narrator this might have been too sweet, but as it was, it was a quietly effective story about small towns and families and love and all that without being annoying.

I've read this one twice, the first time in 1994, then again 4 years later. It had an unusual writing style that took a little getting used to, then it grew on me. And the story is very interesting and full of quirky characters.