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ISBN-10: 1400077923
ISBN-13: 9781400077922
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publish Date: 01/08/2008
Dimensions: 8.10" L, 5.30" W, 0.80" H

The View from Castle Rock

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Price: $16.95

Overview

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.

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Reviews

"Masterful. . . . Munro really does know magic: how to summon the spirits and the emotions that animate our lives." –The Washington Post Book World

"Fascinating. . . . Munro's powers are at their peak. . . . She continues to charge forward, shining a light on what is most fearsome and true." –Chicago Tribune

"Exhilarating. . . . [Munro's] ability to travel into the minds and feelings of people long dead is uncanny." –The New York Times Book Review

"Revelatory. . . . A work of aching authenticity." –The Boston Globe

Praise from fellow writers:

"Her work felt revolutionary when I came to it, and it still does." –Jhumpa Lahiri

"She is one of the handful of writers, some living, most dead, whom I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion." –Jonthan Franzen

"The authority she brings to the page is just lovely." –Elizabeth Strout

"She's the most savage writer I've ever read, also the most tender, the most honest, the most perceptive." –Jeffery Eugenides

"Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can."–Julian Barnes

"She is a short-story writer who...reimagined what a story can do." –Loorie Moore

"There's probably no one alive who's better at the craft of the short story." –Jim Shepard

"A true master of the form." –Salman Rushdie

"A wonderful writer." –Joyce Carol Oates

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Details

ISBN-10: 1400077923
ISBN-13: 9781400077922
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publish Date: 01/08/2008
Dimensions: 8.10" L, 5.30" W, 0.80" H
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