The View from Castle Rock: Stories - Softcover

Munro, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099497999 ISBN 13: 9780099497998

Publisher: Vintage Books USA, 2007

Synopsis

Winner of the nobel prize in literaturethe worlds finest living short story writer turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined version of the past from her ancestors view from edinburghs catle rock in the eighteenth century to her parents thwarted ambitions in ontario, and her own awakening in 1950s canada, munro effortlessly weaves fact and myth to create an epic story of past and present, proving that fiction has much to tell us about life

About this title

About the Author:

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Alice Munro was born in 1931 and is the author of thirteen collections of stories, most recently Dear Life, and a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She has received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The Beggar Maid, and has been awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives with her husband in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron in Canada.

Review:

"A collection that sees her delving even deeper and with glittering expertise into a fictional terrain she has made her own for 40 years now" -- Peter Kemp * Sunday Times * "The pre-eminent master of the short story... all delivered by her spare, wonderful prose" -- David Mattin * Independent on Sunday * "If there is one writer who proves that the short story should never be deemed the uninspiring younger sibling of the novel, it is Munro" -- Melissa McClements * Financial Times * "This is a deeply moving and contemplative book. If it is a valediction, then it is a magnificent one" -- Mary Morrissy * Irish Times * "Mesmerising and cleverly interlinked, these stories are well balanced - neither overly inventive nor stolidly factual. Ms Munro's light touch and her sensitive embellishment of the truth result in a book that is illuminated by the patterns of life repeating themselves over the years" * Economist *

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books USA
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0099497999
• ISBN 13: 9780099497998
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368