The View from Castle Rock
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781283998970 (1283998971)
Publish date: January 1st 2006
Publisher: Vintage Books
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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