num_pages: 368
description: 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 her compassionate understanding of ordinary lives.
language: English
title: The View from Castke Rock
titlecomplete: The View from Castke Rock
characters: Ancestors and the author.
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Canadian Literature, Canada, Scotland, Literature, Nobel Prize, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 5088
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: O. Henry Award
category: 'What Do You Want To Know For?'
publisher: Vintage Books