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The View from Castle Rock: Stories
 

The View from Castle Rock: Stories

by Alice Munro

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... (read more)

Top tags: short stories,  biography,  canada,  canadian literature,  coming of age (all tags)

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mjacobs
  • Rated 5 stars

“I hugely enjoyed this book, and I was very impressed with it too. It's not often that a book lives up to the compliments on the blurb- this one does, and how.
Munro has - as so many of us seem to do when we get older - investigated her own family background, and she has woven beautiful stories around the facts she gathered. These stories, starting with her ancestors in Scotland, continuing with the settlers in Canada, and later her own youth, make wonderful and inspirational reading.”

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jeremy
  • Rated 1 stars

“Munro is talented; that is nigh indisputable. Her subject matter for this collection of stories, however, renders the collection close to unbearably boring and, dare I say, immaterial. This is an inwardly focused collection of stories that could only have been written by Munro. Unfortunately, that formula precludes readers from ever getting as much from reading as Munro must have from writing. Reading this is exhausting in all the wrong ways and, ultimately, not worth the investment of...”

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Community:
  • Rated 3.638889 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 4.833333 stars
  

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  • Susanne

    susanne said:

    “I enjoyed this book very much. I like the open and honest way she writes of herself at school and the also the fictitious parts describing her ancestors in Scotland, on the ship and in their early years in Canada. All could be true and are surely based on notes and stories told within the family. This book made me also think about my grandparents and their lives and made me curious about ancestors before them. A good read, without the hollywood drama.”

    posted Monday, March 10 2008
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