| The View from Castle Rock Contributor(s): Munro, Alice (Author) |
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ISBN: 1400077923 ISBN-13: 9781400077922 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2008 Annotation: From the award-winning and bestselling author of "Runaway" comes a new book of short stories that is as transporting as anything shes ever written ("New York Times"). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Sagas |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.3" W x 8.1" (0.60 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013 Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet.
A young boy, taken to Edinburgh's Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father's dream. Scottish immigrants experience love and loss on a journey that leads them to rural Ontario. Wives, mothers, fathers, and children move through uncertainty, ambivalence, and contemplation in these stories of hopes, adversity, and wonder. The View from Castle Rock reveals what is most essential in Munro's art: her compassionate understanding of ordinary lives. |