The View from Castle Rock - (Vintage International) by Alice Munro (Paperback)

About the Book

From the award-winning and bestselling author of "Runaway" comes a new book of short stories that is as transporting as anything shes ever written ("New York Times").

Book Synopsis

A "revelatory" (The Boston Globe), "exhilarating" (The New York Times Book Review) collection of twelve stories that "[redraw] the boundaries between fiction and memoir" (O: The Oprah Magazine), from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro

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

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Slate, Rocky Mountain News, New York, The Kanas City Star

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.

Review Quotes

"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

About the Author

Alice Munro is the author of thirteen collections of stories--including Dear Life, Runaway, and Too Much Happiness--as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. Among the many awards and prizes she received are three Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes in Canada; the Rea Award; the Lannan Literary Award; the National Book Critics Circle Award; and the International Booker Prize. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Alice Munro died in 2024.