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When Eric Nurse, 52, first went to sea with the fishing fleet from the port of Champneys East in Newfoundland, the cod seemed plentiful enough to last forever. Like his father and grandfather before him, Nurse returned year after year to the frigid, treacherous North Atlantic to harvest the rich waters of the Grand Banks, one of the world's most productive fishing areas...
...close to obsession, she follows her own advice. Postcards, her first novel, is about rural America from World War II to the present, and research didn't take her far from home. But most of The Shipping News (Scribner's; 337 pages; $20) is set on the coast of Newfoundland. Proulx made seven trips there, learning the ways in which locals and newcomers use language, seeing how the tight community life falls apart in thin times, as the old occupations of cod fishing and seal hunting fail...
...photo," who possesses "a great damp loaf of a body." His faithless wife is "thin, moist, hot . . . in another time, another sex, she would have been a Genghis Khan." After they marry, her "desire reversed to detestation like a rubber glove turned inside out." But as Quoyle heads to Newfoundland and fumbles through life as a newspaperman, the author eases up and allows an occasional smile...
...calamity is rooted in poverty, but it is compounded by years of government neglect. Now numbering 1,500 in all, the Labrador Innu are subsidized by Ottawa but fall under the jurisdiction of Newfoundland's provincial government. Once proud hunters, trappers and fishers of Labrador's interior Barren Lands, the natives were relocated to their present home in 1967 with the promise of acceptable housing, running water and fishing boats, which have yet to appear. "The program made the people dependent on government," says Peter Penashue, president of the Innu Nation. "For kids growing up, there is no self-esteem...
...national identity behind tariff walls, most of which are gradually being ratchetted down to zero under the trade treaty. One consequence, TIME's panelists agreed, is that the country's economy is rapidly reorienting itself north-south rather than along the historical east-west lines from British Columbia to Newfoundland. Provincial jurisdictions that regulate everything from natural-resource extraction to pollution to stock-market rules are following suit. The outcome is a thickening network of business and government ties between separate parts of Canada and their neighboring U.S. states, which will result in complex transnational regions...