The View From Castle Rock
A story collection brimming with hope, adveristy, and wonder, Canada's beloved writer displays her compassionate understanding of ordinary lives to full effect.
The View from Castle Rock traces the generations of Munro's family, from the title story—where through a haze of whiskey Alice's ancestors gaze north from Edinburgh Castle at the Fife coast, believing that it is North America—to Munro's first person stories, set during her lifetime, and all the way to the final story, where we travel with “Alice Munro” today. In the author's words, these stories “pay more attention to the truth of a life than fiction usually does. But not enough to swear on.”
ALICE MUNRO grew up in Wingham, Ontario and attended the University of Western Ontario (now Western University), studying journalism and English. Her first collection of stories was published in 1968 as Dance of the Happy Shades, which garnered much acclaim and won the Governor General’s Award for English fiction that year. Three years later, she published her only novel, Lives of Girls and Women. Over the next few decades, she published many more short story collections, including Who Do You Think You Are?; The Moons of Jupiter; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, from which a story was later adapted into the two-time Academy Award–winning movie, Away from Her; Runaway; and The View from Castle Rock. Her stories appeared regularly in…
Dance of the Happy Shades
Alice Munro
Who Do You Think You Are?
Alice Munro
Lives of Girls and Women
Alice Munro
Julieta (Movie Tie-In Edition)
Alice Munro
Family Furnishings
Alice Munro
A Wilderness Station
Alice Munro
Dear Life
Alice Munro
Too Much Happiness
Alice Munro
Friend of My Youth
Alice Munro
The Progress of Love
Alice Munro
Runaway
Alice Munro
The Love of a Good Woman
Alice Munro
Open Secrets
Alice Munro