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* SalvagePirates: Quoyle, a mild-mannered ExtremeDoormat, is surprised to find out that his Newfoundland ancestors were pirates that used lights to lure ships onto rocks, where they would crash, allowing the Quoyles to harvest the wrecks for goods.
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* YourCheatingHeart:
** Quoyle is basically the only man in the world Petal won't have sex with.
** Mrs. Melville, the wife of Mr. Melville the obnoxious yacht owner, turns out to have a lover, the steward on the yacht.
** Quoyle is basically the only man in the world Petal won't have sex with.
** Mrs. Melville, the wife of Mr. Melville the obnoxious yacht owner, turns out to have a lover, the steward on the yacht.
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** Mrs. Melville, the wife of Mr. Melville the obnoxious yacht owner, turns out to have a lover, the steward on the yacht.
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** Mrs. Melville, the wife of Mr. Melville the obnoxious yacht owner, turns out to have a lover, the steward on the yacht.yacht.
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* [[spoiler:BrotherSisterIncest]]: It's revealed that [[spoiler:Agnis]] was [[RapeAsBackstory raped]] by [[spoiler:Quoyle's father]] as a preteen.
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* [[spoiler:BrotherSisterIncest]]: BrotherSisterIncest: It's revealed that [[spoiler:Agnis]] was [[RapeAsBackstory raped]] by [[spoiler:Quoyle's father]] as a preteen.
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* [[spoiler:BrotherSisterIncest]]: It's revealed that [[spoiler:Agnis]] was [[RapeAsBackstory raped]] by [[spoiler:Quoyle's father]]as a preteen.
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* [[spoiler:BrotherSisterIncest]]: It's revealed that [[spoiler:Agnis]] was [[RapeAsBackstory raped]] by [[spoiler:Quoyle's father]]as father]] as a preteen.
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* AgeLift: In the book, Bunny Quoyle is an infant; in the movie she's six-years-old.
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* [[spoiler:BrotherSisterIncest]]: It's revealed that [[spoiler:Agnis]] was [[RapeAsBackstory raped]] by [[spoiler:Quoyle's father]]as a preteen.
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It centers around Quoyle, a newspaper reporter whose life is unraveling. His parents kill themselves, after they are both diagnosed with cancer. His monstrous sociopath of a wife, Petal, attempts to sell their two daughters to sex traffickers. Petal leaves Quoyle, only to be killed in a car wreck. All these shocks lead Quoyle to take his daughters to his father's home town, the village of Killick-Claw in Newfoundland. There he attempt to start a new life. He gets a job at the local newspaper and finds love with Wavey, a woman in the town.
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It centers around Quoyle, a newspaper reporter whose life is unraveling. His parents kill themselves, themselves after they are both diagnosed with cancer. His monstrous sociopath of a wife, Petal, attempts to sell their two daughters to sex traffickers. Petal leaves Quoyle, only to be killed in a car wreck. All these shocks lead Quoyle to take his daughters to his father's home town, the village of Killick-Claw in Newfoundland. There he attempt attempts to start a new life. He gets a job at the local newspaper and finds love with Wavey, a woman in the town.
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* AdaptedOut:
** In the book Quoyle and Petal's daughter Sunshine is excluded from the film adaptation.
** Same with most of the Buggit family from the book were composited or left out.
* AgeLift: In the book, Bunny Quoyle is an infant; in the movie she's six-years-old.
** In the book Quoyle and Petal's daughter Sunshine is excluded from the film adaptation.
** Same with most of the Buggit family from the book were composited or left out.
* AgeLift: In the book, Bunny Quoyle is an infant; in the movie she's six-years-old.
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''The Shipping News'' is a PulitzerPrize-winning 1993 novel by Annie Proulx.
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''The Shipping News'' is a PulitzerPrize-winning Pulitzer Prize-winning 1993 novel by Annie Proulx.
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* BanditClan: Quoyle, a mild-mannered ExtremeDoormat, is surprised to find out that his Newfoundland ancestors were pirates that used lights to lure ships onto rocks, where they would crash, allowing the Quoyles to harvest the wrecks for goods.
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* GentleGiant: Excessively gentle. Quoyle is a huge hulking man with massive ham-hands and an enormous jutting jaw. He is also mild and wimpy.
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* {{Hangover}}: Quoyle is hunched over a toilet vomiting the morning after Jack Buggit's going-away party.
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* {{Hangover}}: HangoverSensitivity: Quoyle is hunched over a toilet vomiting the morning after Jack Buggit's going-away party.
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It centers around Quoyle, a newspaper reporter whose life is unraveling. His parents kill themselves.themselves, after they are both diagnosed with cancer. His monstrous sociopath of a wife, Petal, attempts to sell their two daughters to sex traffickers. Petal leaves Quoyle, only to be killed in a car wreck. All these shocks lead Quoyle to take his daughters to his father's home town, the village of Killick-Claw in Newfoundland. There he attempt to start a new life. He gets a job at the local newspaper and finds love with Wavey, a woman in the town.
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* IfItBleedsItLeads: "We run a front-page photo of a car wreck every week, whether we have a wreck or not."
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* IfItBleedsItLeads: "We run a front-page photo of a car wreck every week, whether we have a wreck or not." The ''Gammy Bird'' also runs a lot of stories about lurid local sexual abuse cases (of which there seems to be an infinite supply).
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Quoyle is unpleasantly surprised one night when he fishes a suitcase out of the ocean and discovers the severed head of Mr. Melville, the obnoxious yacht owner. Later in the novel we learn that his wife was arrested, in the company of the handsome yacht steward who is 30 years younger than her. She's quoted as saying "I did it for love."
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Quoyle is unpleasantly surprised one night when he fishes a suitcase out of the ocean and discovers the severed head of Mr. Melville, the obnoxious yacht owner. Later in the novel we learn that his wife was arrested, in the company of the handsome yacht steward who is 30 years younger than her. She's quoted as saying "I did it for love."
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* YourCheatingHeart: Quoyle is basically the only man in the world Petal won't have sex with.
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* YourCheatingHeart: YourCheatingHeart:
** Quoyle is basically the only man in the world Petal won't have sexwith.with.
** Mrs. Melville, the wife of Mr. Melville the obnoxious yacht owner, turns out to have a lover, the steward on the yacht.
** Quoyle is basically the only man in the world Petal won't have sex
** Mrs. Melville, the wife of Mr. Melville the obnoxious yacht owner, turns out to have a lover, the steward on the yacht.
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It centers around Quoyle, a newspaper reporter whose life is unraveling. His parents kill themselves. His monstrous sociopath of a wife, Petal, attempts to sell their two daughters to sex traffickers. Petal leaves Quoyle, only to be killed in a car wreck. All these shocks lead Quoyle to take his daughters to his father's home town town, the village of Killick-Claw in Newfoundland and Newfoundland. There he attempt to start a new life. He gets a job at the local newspaper and finds love with Wavey, a woman in the town.
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* {{Hangover}}: Quoyle is hunched over a toilet vomiting the morning after Jack Buggit's going-away party.
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''The Shipping News'' is a 1993 novel by Annie Proulx.
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''The Shipping News'' is a PulitzerPrize-winning 1993 novel by Annie Proulx.
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* ILoveTheDead: Quoyle's distant relative Nolan--one of the only characters in the book who doesn't have a wacky name--is said to have had sex with his wife after she was dead. No woman on the island would get with him after that.
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* PronounTrouble: Sort of. Aunt Agnis tells Quoyle about her deceased lover, Warren, who urged her to get into the upholstery business. She talks about their relationship and how Warren died of cancer. Agnis avoids using personal pronouns and does not tell Quoyle that her lover's full name was '''Irene''' Warren. Quoyle never does find out that his aunt is a lesbian.
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* ExactWords: Agnis tells Quoyle that she had a lover, since deceased, named Warren, who inspired her to get into the upholstery business. Agnis is careful to only refer to her former significant other as "Warren" and never tells Quoyle that her lover's full name was ''Irene'' Warren.
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** Then there's all Proulx's bizarre names. A hero named Quoyle, with friends named Ed Punch and Al Catalog, marries a woman named Petal Bear, has children named Bunny and Sunshine, falls in love with a woman named Wavey, has coworkers named Jack Buggit, Tert Card, Billy Pretty, and B. Beaufield Nutbeem.
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It centers around Quoyle, a newspaper reporter whose life is unraveling. His parents kill themselves. His monstrous sociopath of a wife, Petal, attempts to sell their two daughters to sex traffickers. Petal leaves Quoyle, only to be killed in a car wreck. All these shocks lead Quoyle to take his daughters to his father's home town in Newfoundland and attempt to start a new life. He starts a local newspaper and finds love with Wavey, a woman in the town.
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It centers around Quoyle, a newspaper reporter whose life is unraveling. His parents kill themselves. His monstrous sociopath of a wife, Petal, attempts to sell their two daughters to sex traffickers. Petal leaves Quoyle, only to be killed in a car wreck. All these shocks lead Quoyle to take his daughters to his father's home town in Newfoundland and attempt to start a new life. He starts gets a job at the local newspaper and finds love with Wavey, a woman in the town.
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* IfItBleedsItLeads: "We run a front-page photo of a car wreck every week, whether we have a wreck or not."
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* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Jack Buggit cheerfully relates how his great-great-great grandfather, one of the first settlers, had to eat people to survive.
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* QuirkyTown: The little town in Newfoundland that Quoyle relocates to, where you can be a father at 11, where your ancestors might have eaten people, and where the residents have names like "Jack Buggit".
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* TitleDrop: Quoyle is invited to work for a rinky-dink Newfoundland paper that covers "the shipping news" regarding vessels entering and leaving the local port.
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* ExtremeDoormat: Quoyle's main character flaw, as, despite being a physically large man, he is extremely timid and lets people walk all over him. Petal thinks nothing of bringing other men to their home to have sex with.
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* ExtremeDoormat: Quoyle's main character flaw, as, despite being a physically large man, he is extremely timid and lets people walk all over him. Petal thinks nothing of bringing other men to their home to have sex with. His brother calls him "lardass" and "barfbag".
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* DrivenToSuicide: When Quoyle's parents are both diagnosed with cancer at the same time, they kill themselves.
* ExtremeDoormat: Quoyle's main character flaw, as, despite being a physically large man, he is extremely timid and lets people walk all over him. Petal thinks nothing of bringing other men to their home to have sex with.
* ExtremeDoormat: Quoyle's main character flaw, as, despite being a physically large man, he is extremely timid and lets people walk all over him. Petal thinks nothing of bringing other men to their home to have sex with.
* ReallyGetsAround: Petal is described as "a woman who could not be held back from strangers' rooms, who would have sexual conjugation whether in stinking rest rooms or mop cupboards."
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* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: A man wakes up at his own funeral--or actually his wake. Quoyle has trouble explaining this to his young daughter, who doesn't quite understand the difference between death and sleep.
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* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: A man wakes up at his own funeral--or actually his wake. Quoyle has trouble explaining this to his young daughter, who doesn't quite understand the difference between death and sleep.sleep.
* YourCheatingHeart: Quoyle is basically the only man in the world Petal won't have sex with.
* YourCheatingHeart: Quoyle is basically the only man in the world Petal won't have sex with.
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* BlowingSmokeRingsBlowingSmokeRings: Partridge, Quoyle's mentor in the newspaper business, does this as a demonstration of his coolness.
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* TeenPregnancy: Gender reversed. Quoyle calculates that his grandfather must have been about '''11''' when he fathered a child. His aunt's reply is simply: "You don't know Newfoundlanders."
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--> "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."
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--> "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.""
* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: A man wakes up at his own funeral--or actually his wake. Quoyle has trouble explaining this to his young daughter, who doesn't quite understand the difference between death and sleep.
* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: A man wakes up at his own funeral--or actually his wake. Quoyle has trouble explaining this to his young daughter, who doesn't quite understand the difference between death and sleep.
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''The Shipping News'' is a 1993 novel by Annie Proulx.
It centers around Quoyle, a newspaper reporter whose life is unraveling. His parents kill themselves. His monstrous sociopath of a wife, Petal, attempts to sell their two daughters to sex traffickers. Petal leaves Quoyle, only to be killed in a car wreck. All these shocks lead Quoyle to take his daughters to his father's home town in Newfoundland and attempt to start a new life. He starts a local newspaper and finds love with Wavey, a woman in the town.
In 2001 it was made into a feature film directed by Creator/LasseHallstrom, starring Creator/KevinSpacey as Quoyle, Creator/JudiDench as Agnis, Creator/CateBlanchett as Petal, and Creator/JulianneMoore as Wavey.
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* PurpleProse: Here is the second paragraph of the novel, which tells the story of Quoyle's childhood and youth.
--> "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."
It centers around Quoyle, a newspaper reporter whose life is unraveling. His parents kill themselves. His monstrous sociopath of a wife, Petal, attempts to sell their two daughters to sex traffickers. Petal leaves Quoyle, only to be killed in a car wreck. All these shocks lead Quoyle to take his daughters to his father's home town in Newfoundland and attempt to start a new life. He starts a local newspaper and finds love with Wavey, a woman in the town.
In 2001 it was made into a feature film directed by Creator/LasseHallstrom, starring Creator/KevinSpacey as Quoyle, Creator/JudiDench as Agnis, Creator/CateBlanchett as Petal, and Creator/JulianneMoore as Wavey.
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* PurpleProse: Here is the second paragraph of the novel, which tells the story of Quoyle's childhood and youth.
--> "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."
