The View from Castle Rock: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Munro, Alice
ISBN 10: 0099497999 ISBN 13: 9780099497998
Published by Vintage, 2007
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Synopsis:
Alice Munro turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined version of the past.
‘One of my very favourite writers’ Claire Tomalin
From her ancestors' view from Edinburgh's Castle Rock in the eighteenth century to her parents' thwarted ambitions in Ontario, and her own awakening in 1950s Canada, Munro effortlessly weaves fact and myth to create an epic story of past and present, proving that fiction has much to tell us about life.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009
About the Author:
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**
Alice Munro was born in 1931 and is the author of thirteen collections of stories, most recently Dear Life, and a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She has received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The Beggar Maid, and has been awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.
She lives in Port Hope, Ontario, near lake Ontario in Canada.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: The View from Castle Rock: Winner of the ...
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good