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The View from Castle Rock: Stories
Anne Enright
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Description for The View from Castle Rock: Stories
Paperback. From her ancestors' view from Edinburgh's Catle Rock in the eighteenth century to her parents' thwarted ambitions in Ontario, and her own awakening in 1950s Canada, the author weaves fact and myth to create an epic story of past and present, proving that fiction has much to tell us about life. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 266.
Alice Munro turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined version of the past.
‘One of my very favourite writers’ Claire Tomalin
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.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099497998
SKU
V9780099497998
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-98
About Anne Enright
Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the ... Read more
Reviews for The View from Castle Rock: Stories
"A collection that sees her delving even deeper and with glittering expertise into a fictional terrain she has made her own for 40 years now"
Peter Kemp Sunday Times "The pre-eminent master of the short story... all delivered by her spare, wonderful prose"
David Mattin Independent on Sunday "If there is one writer who proves that the short ... Read more
Peter Kemp Sunday Times "The pre-eminent master of the short story... all delivered by her spare, wonderful prose"
David Mattin Independent on Sunday "If there is one writer who proves that the short ... Read more