num_pages: 351
description: **Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**The world's finest living short story writer turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined version of the past. From her ancestors' view from Edinburgh's Castle Rock in the eighteenth century to her parents' thwarted ambitions in Ontario, and her own awakening in 1950s Canada, Munro effortlessly weaves fact and myth to create an epic story of past and present, proving that fiction has much to tell us about life.
language: English
title: The View from Castle Rock
titlecomplete: The View from Castle 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