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The View from Castle Rock: Stories
Alice Munro
A powerful new collection from one of our most beloved, admired, and honored writers.
Knopf
November 2006
On Sale: November 7, 2006
368 pages
ISBN: 1400042828
EAN: 9781400042821
Hardcover
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Fiction
In stories that are more personal than any that she’s
written before, Alice Munro pieces her family’s history into
gloriously imagined fiction. A young boy is taken to
Edinburgh’s Castle Rock, where his father assures him that
on a clear day he can see America, and he catches a glimpse
of his father’s dream. In stories that follow, as the dream
becomes a reality, two sisters-in-law experience very
different kinds of passion on the long voyage to the New
World; a baby is lost and magically reappears on a journey
from an Illinois homestead to the Canadian border. Other stories take place in more familiar Munro territory,
the towns and countryside around Lake Huron, where the past
shows through the present like the traces of a glacier on
the landscape and strong emotions stir just beneath the
surface of ordinary comings and goings. First love flowers
under the apple tree, while a stronger emotion presents
itself in the barn. A girl hired as summer help, and uneasy
about her “place” in the fancy resort world she’s come to,
is transformed by her employer’s perceptive parting gift. A
father whose early expectations of success at fox farming
have been dashed finds strange comfort in a routine night
job at an iron foundry. A clever girl escapes to college and
marriage. Evocative, gripping, sexy, unexpected—these stories reflect
a depth and richness of experience. The View from Castle
Rock is a brilliant achievement from one of the finest
writers of our time.
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