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The View from Castle Rock: Stories (urspr publ 2006; utgåvan 2006)

av Alice Munro

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013

Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet.

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.



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Titel:The View from Castle Rock: Stories
Författare:Alice Munro
Info:Alfred A. Knopf (2006), Hardcover, 349 pages
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The View from Castle Rock: Stories av Alice Munro (2006)

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Here's what I wrote in 2008 about this read: "The immigrant experience described as Alice tells the tales of her Scottish ancestors who went to Canada." ( )
  MGADMJK | Jul 26, 2023 |
Un'opera in cui la Munro intreccia autobiografia e genealogia, vicenda personale e storia collettiva.
Il libro si divide in due parti: nella prima, "Area depressa",è affidato il racconto dei suoi antenati scozzesi, i Laidlow, che il 4 giugno 1818 salgono a bordo di una nave per emigrare in America; nella seconda parte "A casa" troviamo il racconto in prima persona di alcuni particolari momenti della vita della scrittrice.
Narrare la propria esistenza per la Munro è conoscere se stessi, recuperare tutti i segni del vissuto in volti, paesaggi, ambienti. E' soprattutto bisogno di guardarsi indietro e trovare significati, salvare gli insegnamenti. Come per tutti gli esseri umani, ciò è un "fare ordine" necessario. ( )
  cometahalley | Dec 11, 2020 |
One of her few novels, I'm told, made up of distinct titled short stories. My preferred ordering principle in my own writing. It covers two centuries of changing characters, from Scotland to Ontario, Canada, as described by a descendant. Which would be, in a mixture of fiction and memoir, narrated by the sensitive and perceptive author who makes it work. ( )
  copyedit52 | Jun 7, 2020 |
standouts: home, hired girl, working for a living, no advantages ( )
  dlubell | May 25, 2019 |
This was the second Alice Munro I've read (Open Secrets was the other.) It's well-written; that goes without saying. She muses on the border of story and family history. I started to imagine writing something similar for our family.

Her specialty seems to be exploring the icky borders of sexual awakening and she has an interest in the disturbing. Maybe it's because I read this while I was recovering from the flu, but I felt a little woozy afterwards.

"A View" is also about class and where we are comfortable. I couldn't say that she comes to any conclusions other than one doesn't need to be "rescued". There is some reflection on a kind of joyless religion imported from Scotland. She returns to this a couple of times, but repeats "I am not believer." Nonsense; everyone believes in something; it's this particular old and corporate formulation which she doesn't trust. ( )
  MaryHeleneMele | May 6, 2019 |
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Alice Munro's new book, The View from Castle Rock, is a delightful fraud. Whether through failure of imagination on her publisher's part, or a lack of confidence in the reader, or a shrewd authorial gambit, it is offered as a book of "Stories", the author's eleventh. But it is something else, a major achievement, and an exciting revitalisation of a somewhat exhausted genre. Resounding flyleaf rhetoric issues a denial: "So is this a memoir? No." Well, yes. It is. It is a memoir as only Alice Munro could write it.
 

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Dedicated to Douglas Gibson, who has sustained me through many travails, and whose enthusiasm for this particular book has even sent him prowling through the graveyard of Ettrick Kirk, probably in the rain.
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Fiction. Literature. Short Stories. Historical Fiction. HTML:

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013

Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet.

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.



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