The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro

The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro

WINER 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.

Alice Munro, the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature recipient, grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and went to Western University. She has eleven collections of stories, two volumes of selected stories, and a novel to her credit. She has won numerous medals and prizes over her illustrious career, including three Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes in Canada, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, and England's W.

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ISBN 13	9781400077922
ISBN 10	1400077923
Title	The View from Castle Rock
Author	Alice Munro
Series	Vintage International
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2008-01-08
Number of pages	368
Prizes	Winner of Man Booker International Prize 2009, Winner of Nobel Prize 2013
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