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Gary Osmond

'The Rock and the Proulx' by Gary Osmond

October 1994, no. 165 01 October 1994
When I discovered that a novel set in my native Newfoundland had won the 1993 Irish Times International Fiction Prize, I was a little surprised. Newfoundland, isolated and little known outside Canada, seemed an unlikely setting for an acclaimed novel. The Shipping News, by American writer E. Annie Proulx, has since won other awards and become an inter­national best-seller, its theme of redemp ... (read more)