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Shipping news chapters 29-39 abstract notes. Chapter 29. Billy asks Quoyle if he has yet seen Alvin Yark about building a replacement boat. Alvin Yark , it turns out, is Wavey’s Uncle Quoyle makes a fruitless dash to the harbour to see a burnt ship towed in
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Chapter 29 • Billy asks Quoyle if he has yet seen Alvin Yark about building a replacement boat. • Alvin Yark, it turns out, is Wavey’s Uncle • Quoyle makes a fruitless dash to the harbour to see a burnt ship towed in • Wavey agrees to organize a meeting with her uncle. • Wavey, Quoyle and their children visit Mr. and Mrs. Yark for dinner • Mr. Yark discusses his technique for boat building.
Chapter 30 • Agnis announces that she has been hired to do the upholstery work on a burnt-out ship called the Rome and will need to live in St. John’s. • She questions Quoyle about his intentions: Does he plan on moving back to NY? • Quoyle tells his aunt he could never go back to the U.S. • *241 Bunny makes a cat’s cradle with the knotted string she found in the car.
Chapter 31 • Quoyle and his reporter colleagues banter about stories they are writing. • Nutbeem is shortly to leave for the Caribbean aboard his sailboat. • Winter is coming. • *248 Quoyle determined to stay.
Chapter 32 • Quoyle leaves the girls with Beety and goes to Nutbeem’s going away party • Quoyle inspects Nutbeem’s trailer, and considers renting it for the winter. • Guests arrive, there is quite a bit of drinking. Quoyle has fun. • *255 The guests get even drunker and proceed to trash Nutbeem’s boat. • Quoyle passes out at the inn.
Chapter 33 • Next morning, an extremely hungoverQuoyle calls on Beety. The children have colds and will ride it out at the Buggits. • Dennis goes to help Nutbeem with his boat. • *263 Quoyle goes to the green house where sections of knotted rope have been laid outside the door of each room. • Quoyle visits the cousin, who lives in a squalid hut. • He returns the knotted rope and tells the cousin not to do this again. • Quoyle visits Alvin Yark to check on the progress of his boat. • He later visits Nutbeem and finds that the boat has broken and drifted out to sea. • Nutbeem figures he’ll now take a flight to Brazil.
Chapter 34 • Tert card announces he is leaving the Gammy Bird and that Billy will be in charge • Quoyle attends the Christmas pageant at the school. • Quoyle and Wavey exchange xmas presents. She has knitted a pullover for him • Quoyle contrasts this with previous Christmases with Petal • Dennis suggests they check Quoyle’s distant cousin Nolan. • Nolan is hungry and cold and Dennis suggests the old man would be better in a retirement home.
Chapter 35 • Jack Buggit appoints Quoyle as managing editor of the Gammy Bird, replacing Tert Card • Quoyle will be continuing his Shipping News
Chapter 36 • Partridge phones to tell Quoyle of violence and mayhem in the U.S. • *Buggit conducts an editorial meeting with Quoyle – on Jack’s boat while he fishes and Quoyle cleans the catch. • Quoyle must travel to St. John’s to sign commital papers for the cousin, diagnosed with a serious mental illness. • Quoyle takes Wavey with him to St. John’s. • *Agnis, we learn, had been raped by her own brother (Quoyle’s father) and had undergone an abortion.
Chapter 37 • *Quoyle is called to Bunny’s school because Bunny has attacked a teacher. • Beety is able to coax Bunny to tell her that she had attacked the teacher for harassing and humiliating Herry. • Quoyle and the aunt visit the principal to sort things out. • We learn that Wavey and Quoyle both had abusive partners in their past.
Chapter 38 • At the Burke house, which he is renting, Quoyle gives a party to celebrate his aunt’s return to town. • Wavey buys a husky puppy for Bunny and Sunshine. They call it Warren. • Wavey and Quoyle kiss in front of everyone! • A terrible storm rages, blowing away the green house. • The Aunt shows her toughness and says she’ll buy another house with the insurance money. • Quoyle considers, again, buying the Burke house
Chapter 39 • Quoyle’s boat is finished. He feels pretty good. • Dennis calls Quoyle up to tell him that Jack is missing! • Jack is found. Drowned. • Quoyle assures the Gammy employees that their jobs are safe. • They plan to do a special edition for Jack. • Wavey thinks it would be a good idea to take Bunny to the wake to learn of death. • The wake…* • Quoyle and Wavey commit to each other.
