by Alice Munro
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...
I have tried in the past to get into Munro's short stories and have never been able to do it. So, either I'm older and wiser, or this hit me at just the right time, or it's different from her other work, but either way, I'm going to dig back in and read a lot more of her stories.This book totally sa...
Fluid, effortless, simple yet so much insight into the complex. A book to be savoured and treasured.
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