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Alice Munro
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View From Castle Rock |
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English |
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Paperback |
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368 |
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2007-10-02 |
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0143055631 |
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Penguin Canada |
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0.8 pounds |
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5.2 x 8.1 x 1.1 inches |
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The latest from the accomplished and much lauded Alice Munro is a family and personal memoir presented as short stories. Munro begins in rural Scotland searching out her family roots and then moves ever closer to the present time. She covers the lives of her ancestors in Scotland (much of which must have been fictionalized), the journey by sea to Canada, the lives of her grandparents, her parents, and ultimately her own life and her searches into the past. Munro's strength as a writer is her ability to provide insight into the psychological motivations of her characters (and relations, in this case). The long title story, about the sea crossing of her ancestors, is a marvel of concision with fascinating characters conjured from the past: Walter, the young writer; Andrew, the easily embarrassed young husband; Agnes, who bears a child at sea; young Mary with a baby on her hip; and old James, the crotchety, story-telling patriarch. The book opens and closes with visits to country cemeteries, in Scotland and Canada, the former on a dismal rainy day in a rural landscape that feels lonely and depopulated. These are exceedingly quiet stories, as befits their setting in rural locales--farms and farm towns--whose lack of prosperity slows the pace of change. --Mark Frutkin
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