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Article: Novelist embraces adaptation.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
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- December 25, 2001
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Count E. Annie Proulx as one best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author who's happy with Hollywood.
Her novel, "The Shipping News," a Gothic tale filled with generational secrets, mystical communication and the healing of damaged people, has been sought after as a motion-picture property since it won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award a decade ago. It arrives on screens today as a film by director Lasse Halstrom ("Chocolat," "The Cider House Rules"), starring Kevin Spacey as the depressed, defeated Quoyle, who returns to his ancestral roots in Newfoundland.
Proulx (pronounced, she notes, "Prew, like shoe, it's French") happily sold ...