<![CDATA[The View from Castle Rock]]>

false <![CDATA[The View from Castle Rock]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166065243m/9815.jpg 9815 14 A powerful new collection from one of our most beloved, admired, and honored writers. 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. 930839 book 7 11 2006 The View from Castle Rock total:640|5:148|4:240|3:165|2:62|1:25| 640 2344 1105 128 5 1 false false Wed Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 18:46:40 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 06 20:14:02 -0700 2009
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The book was a compilation of stories, some related, some seemingly not related, of British immigra...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 15 23:15:01 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 23:11:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 27 09:05:27 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 21 08:02:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 15 09:20:10 -0800 2008 Tue Jul 01 13:43:03 -0700 2008
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I'm not sure it can really be described as a collection of short stories, because they hang together...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 15:05:37 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 09:30:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 16:49:46 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 19:09:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 12 12:54:19 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 12:58:26 -0700 2009 Lives of Girls and Women. The basic semi-autobiographical story is similar, but given fictional and nonfictional treatments. Alice Munro had such fantastic insight into the human condition, even in her early work. Extraordinary.more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 20 13:02:21 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 21 08:44:04 -0700 2007
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