The View from Castle Rock

ISBN-13: 9781400077922 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 368 str.

Alice Munro

Opis

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013
Alice 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 art: her compassionate understanding of ordinary lives.

Recenzje

Masterful. . . . Munro really does know magic: how to summon the spirits and the emotions that animate our lives. The Washington Post Book World

 

Fascinating. . . . Munro s powers are at their peak. . . . She continues to charge forward, shining a light on what is most fearsome and true. Chicago Tribune

 

Exhilarating. . . . [Munro's] ability to travel into the minds and feelings of people long dead is uncanny. The New York Times Book Review

 

Revelatory. . . . A work of aching authenticity. The Boston Globe

Praise from fellow writers:

Her work felt revolutionary when I came to it, and it still does. Jhumpa Lahiri

She is one of the handful of writers, some living, most dead, whom I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion. Jonthan Franzen

The authority she brings to the page is just lovely.   Elizabeth Strout

She s the most savage writer I ve ever read, also the most tender, the most honest, the most perceptive.   Jeffery Eugenides

Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can. Julian Barnes

She is a short-story writer who reimagined what a story can do.   Loorie Moore

There s probably no one alive who s better at the craft of the short story.   Jim Shepard

A true master of the form.   Salman Rushdie

A wonderful writer.   Joyce Carol Oates 

Spis treści

Foreword

Part One / No Advantages
No Advantages
The View from Castle Rock
Illinois
The Wilds of Morris Township
Working for a Living

Part Two / Home
Fathers
Lying Under the Apple Tree
Hired Girl
The Ticket
Home
What Do You Want to Know For?

Epilogue
Messenger

O autorze

Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and two volumes of Selected Stories. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada s Governor General s Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England s W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Granta, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron.