One character in this novel telephones her husband from a bar in Montgomery to ask him to look up the recipe to an Alabama Slammer. A child in this novel is terrified of a white dog that she sees and hears everywhere. Another of its characters is Bayonet Melville, whose yacht Tough Baby was originally built for Hitler and smashes seventeen boats during Hurricane Bob. After
One character in this novel telephones her husband from a bar in Montgomery to ask him to look up the recipe to an Alabama Slammer. A child in this novel is terrified of a white dog that she sees and hears everywhere. Another of its characters is Bayonet Melville, whose yacht Tough Baby was originally built for Hitler and smashes seventeen boats during Hurricane Bob. After his wife Petal abandons him and tries to sell his children (*) Bunny and Sunshine, this novel's protagonist joins his upholsterer aunt and moves to his family's ancestral home at the town of Killick-Claw on Newfoundland. That protagonist, Quoyle, gets a job as a reporter for the Gammy Bird writing the title column. For 10 points, name this 1993 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Annie Proulx.
One character in this novel telephones her husband from a bar in Montgomery to ask him to look up the recipe to an Alabama Slammer.
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