The View from Castle Rock

Zusatztext “Masterful. . . . Munro really does know magic: how to summon the spirits and the emotions that animate our lives.” — The Washington Post Book World   “Fascinating. . . . Munro’s powers are at their peak. . . . She continues to charge forward! shining a light on what is most fearsome and true.” — Chicago Tribune   “Exhilarating. . . . [Munro's] ability to travel into the minds and feelings of people long dead is uncanny.” — The New York Times Book Review   “Revelatory. . . . A work of aching authenticity.” — The Boston Globe Praise from fellow writers: “Her work felt revolutionary when I came to it! and it still does.” —Jhumpa Lahiri “She is one of the handful of writers! some living! most dead! whom I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion.” —Jonthan Franzen “The authority she brings to the page is just lovely.” —Elizabeth Strout “She’s the most savage writer I’ve ever read! also the most tender! the most honest! the most perceptive.” —Jeffery Eugenides “Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.”—Julian Barnes “She is a short-story writer who…reimagined what a story can do.” —Loorie Moore “There’s probably no one alive who’s better at the craft of the short story.” —Jim Shepard “A true master of the form.” —Salman Rushdie “A wonderful writer.” —Joyce Carol Oates  Informationen zum Autor Alice Munro is the author of thirteen collections of stories—including Dear Life, Runaway , and Too Much Happiness —as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women . Among the many awards and prizes she received are three Governor General’s Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes in Canada; the Rea Award; the Lannan Literary Award; the National Book Critics Circle Award; and the International Booker Prize. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker , The Atlantic , The Paris Review , and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Alice Munro died in 2024. Klappentext WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013Alice 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. Leseprobe No Advantages This parish possesses no advantages. Upon the hills the soil is in many places mossy and fit for nothing. The air in general is moist. This is occasioned by the height of the hills which continually attract the clouds and the vapour that is continually exhaled from the mossy ground . . . The nearest market town is fifteen miles away and the roads so deep as to be almost impassable. The snow also at times is a great inconvenience, often for many months we can have no intercourse with mankind. And a great disadvantage is the want of bridges so that the traveller is obstructed when the waters are swelled . . . Barley oats and potatoes are the only crops raised. Wheat rye turnips and cabbage are never attempted . . .There are ten proprietors of land in this parish: none of them resides in it.Contribution by the Minister of Ettrick Parish, in the county of Selkirk, to the Statistical Account of Scotland, 1799 ...

List of contents

Foreword

Part One / No Advantages
No Advantages
The View from Castle Rock
Illinois
The Wilds of Morris Township
Working for a Living

Part Two / Home
Fathers
Lying Under the Apple Tree
Hired Girl
The Ticket
Home
What Do You Want to Know For?

Epilogue
Messenger

Report

Masterful . . . Munro really does know magic: how to summon the spirits and the emotions that animate our lives. The Washington Post Book World

Fascinating . . . Munro s powers are at their peak. . . . She continues to charge forward, shining a light on what is most fearsome and true. Chicago Tribune

Exhilarating . . . [Munro's] ability to travel into the minds and feelings of people long dead is uncanny. The New York Times Book Review

Revelatory . . . A work of aching authenticity. The Boston Globe

Product details

• Authors: Alice Munro
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.01.2008
• EAN: 9781400077922
• ISBN: 978-1-4000-7792-2
• No. of pages: 349
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage International; Vintage International
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature