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The Shipping News2001

Genre: Drama
The Shipping News is a novel by American author E. Annie Proulx and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1993. It won the Pulitzer Prize, the U.S. National Book Award, as well as other awards. It was adapted as a film of the same name which was r… more »


Silver Melville:
Tell him who let our insurance lapse. Wham! Oh, it took six very expensive lawyers to weasel us out of it. An inch from bankruptcy. The moral of the story: when you marry a tour guide, confine his authority to mixing the drinks. [stumbles away]

Quoyle:
Did I come at a bad time?

Bayonet Melville:
Yeah, ten years ago would have been better.

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