The View from Castle Rock
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...
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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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Format: papier
ISBN:
1400077923
Publish date: 8 stycznia 2008
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Short Stories,
Canada,
Nobel Prize,
Canadian Literature,
Scotland
THE VIEW FROM CASTLE ROCK - The short story, titled The View from Castle Rock, is also a collection. In this review, my focus is the short story, not the book. The Laidlaws emigrate from Scotland to Canada in 1818. For the first time in their lives, family members board the ship: Old James (father),...
bookshelves: published-2000, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, canada, britain-scotland, dip-in-now-and-again, winter-20122013, tbr-busting-2013, historical-fiction, families, paper-read, one-penny-wonder Read from March 26, 2012 to February 08, 2013 Dedicated to Douglas Gibson,who sustained me ...
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Dedicated to Douglas Gibson,who sustained me through many travails,and whose enthusiasm for this particular bookhas even sent him prowling through the graveyardof Ettrick Kirk, probably in the rain.1. No Advantages: The Ettrick Valley lies about fifty miles due south of Edinburgh, and thirty or so m...
I looked forward to my daily commutes every day that I had this book with me, and did not begrudge carrying the hardback. The early stories set in Scotland (my own background) and immigrant Ontario (history of Ontario is my professional milieu) were of particular interest. If I had any complaint, an...
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