The View from Castle Rock: Stories

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.

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.