Author: Alice Munro. Published by McClelland and Stewart Publishers, Toronto, ON., 2006, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition HARDCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9.25 x 6.25 inch, 349 pages.
THE VIEW FROM CASTLE ROCK, is an evocative, gripping, sexy, unexpected short story collection by Alice Munro, reflecting a depth and richness of experience.
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 glimpse of his father’s dream. In stories that follow, as the dream becomes a reality, two sisters-in-law experience very different kinds of passion on the long voyage to the New World; a baby is lost and magically reappears on a journey from an Illinois homestead to the Canadian border. Other stories take place in more familiar Munro territory, the towns and countryside around Lake Huron, where the past shows through the present like the traces of a glacier on the landscape and strong emotions stir just beneath the surface of ordinary comings and goings.
