The View from Castle Rock
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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 | 9781400042821 |
| ISBN 10 | 1400042828 |
| Title | The View from Castle Rock |
| Author | Alice Munro |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Year published | 2006-11-07 |
| Number of pages | 349 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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