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View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro (2008, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-101400077923

ISBN-139781400077922

eBay Product ID (ePID)60300248

Product Key Features

Book TitleView from Castle Rock

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2008

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Sagas, Historical

GenreFiction

AuthorAlice Munro

Book SeriesVintage International Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight10.8 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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ReviewsPraise for The View From Castle Rock "Break[s] every rule ever taught in a writing seminar, setting up a master class along the sidelines . . . Yet it shows, as usual, how to draw gasps from other writers by defying the laws of gravitas as effortlessly as Michael Jordan defied those of gravity." -Pico Iyer, Newsweek Magazine "Sublime . . . Late in her career, and late in life, Alice Munro seems unencumbered by the laurels heaped upon her. She continues to charge forward, shining a light on what is most fearsome and true." -Jennifer Haigh, Chicago Tribune "In her astonishing new collection, Munro delves into the past . . . Result: a far-ranging, richly symphonic suite of stories that outshines even Munro's earlier masterworks." -Michael Upchruch, The Seattle Times "Munro is the illusionist whose trick can never be exposed. And that is because there is no smoke, there are no mirrors. Munro really does know magic: how to summon the spirits and the emotions that animate our lives." -Geraldine Brooks, the front page of The Washington Post Book World From the Hardcover edition., "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 , "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, "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", "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, "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

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Table Of ContentForeword Part One / No Advantages No Advantages The View from Castle Rock Illinois The Wilds of Morris Township Working for a Living Part Two / Home Fathers Lying Under the Apple Tree Hired Girl The Ticket Home What Do You Want to Know For? Epilogue Messenger

SynopsisA "revelatory" ( The Boston Globe) , "exhilarating" ( The New York Times Book Review ) collection of twelve stories that "[redraw] the boundaries between fiction and memoir" ( O: The Oprah Magazine ), from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro "Munro really does know magic: how to summon the spirits and the emotions that animate our lives."-- The Washington Post Book World A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Slate, Rocky Mountain News, New York, The Kanas City Star 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., 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.