Journal Entry 1 by catsalive from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, January 24, 2008

From Publishers Weekly
Proulx has followed Postcards , her story of a family and their farm, with an extraordinary second novel of another family and the sea. The fulcrum is Quoyle, a patient, self-deprecating, oversized, hack writer who, following the deaths of nasty parents and a succubus of a wife, moves with his two daughters and straight-thinking aunt back to the ancestral manse in Killick-Claw, a Newfoundland harbor town of no great distinction. There, Quoyle finds a job writing about car crashes and the shipping news for The Gammy Bird, a local paper kept afloat largely by reports of sexual abuse cases and comical typographical errors. Killick-Claw may not be perfect, but it is a stable enough community for Quoyle and Co. to recover from the terrors of their past lives. But the novel is much more than Quoyle's story: it is a moving evocation of a place and people buffeted by nature and change. Proulx routinely does without nouns and conjunctions--"Quoyle, grinning. Expected to hear they were having a kid. Already picked himself for godfather"--but her terse prose seems perfectly at home on the rocky Newfoundland coast. She is in her element both when creating haunting images (such as Quoyle's inbred, mad and mean forbears pulling their house across the ice after being ostracized by more God-fearing folk) and when lyrically rendering a routine of gray, cold days filled with cold cheeks, squidburgers, fried bologna and the sea. 

Journal Entry 2 by catsalive at Oz VBB in Australia Post, Virtual Bookbox OZ -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Released 4 yrs ago (1/30/2008 UTC) at Oz VBB in Australia Post, Virtual Bookbox OZ -- Controlled Releases

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Journal Entry 3 by BellaMack from St Helens, Tasmania Australia on Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Thanks catsalive :)