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The View from Castle Rock Audio Book
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The View from Castle Rock
Author:
Alice Munro
Reader: Kimberly Farr
A brilliant collection of stories from a great writer. In stories that are more personal than any that she's written before, she pieces her family's history – from Scotland to Lake Huron – into gloriously imagined fiction. A New York Times Notable book. "Perfectly modulated tales [score] a direct wallop to the cerebral cortex... gorgeous... [Her] prodigious talent is all here."—Entertainment Weekly
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Available Audio Book Editions:
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Audio CDs ( 5 ) |
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Publish Date: 11/07/2006
ISBN: 9780739339817
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Synopsis:
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An evocative and compelling compilation of short fiction by the award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman and other works journeys from the Scotland of the author's own family heritage and a ship en route to the New World, to a family odyssey from Illinois to Canada and in and around Lake Huron. Simultaneous.
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Book Reviews:
| "Alice Munro spins tales that show us, again and again, and with wondrous grace, how much can be done in a simple short story." |
| Time - Pico Iyer (11/13/2006) |
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| "Ten collections of stories and one novel have made Alice Munro one of the most praised fiction writers of our time. In THE VIEW FROM CASTLE ROCK her full range of gifts is on display: indelible characters, deep insights about human behavior and relationships, vibrant prose, and seductive, suspenseful story telling." |
| Publishers Weekly - Sigrid Nunez (09/25/2006) |
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Author Bio:
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Born in Wigham, Ontario, Alice Munro attended the University of Western Ontario, graduating in 1951. That year she married James Munro, founded the beloved Munro's Books bookstore in Victoria, and had three daughters before getting divorced in 1976. She married Gerald Fremlin in 1976. Except for two early novels-in-stories, LIVES OF GIRLS AND WOMEN and THE BEGGAR MAID, Munro writes only short stories, although she said in a 1998 interview, "My ambition is to write a novel before I die." Her work has won her many awards and the nearly unremitting praise of other authors for the depth and richness of her characters, her startling shifts in time and perspective, her strong grasp of regionalism, and her Chekhovian ability to encompass large novelistic themes in relatively few pages . She appears with regularity in The Best American Short Stories series. Her recent book THE VIEW FROM CASTLE ROCK blends short fiction with true stories from her life and the lives of her ancestors. In 2009, Alice Munro won the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement.
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