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The view from Castle Rock : stories by Alice Munro is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A New Collection Of Stories By Alice Munro Is Always A Major Event. This New Collection — Her Most Personal To Date — Is No Exception. Alice Munro’s Stories Are Always Wonderful And So Ingrained With Truths About Life That Readers Always Want To Know Where They Came From. In This Book, Alice Munro Tells Us. In Her Foreword (an Unusual Feature In Itself), She Explains How She, Born Alice Laidlaw In Ontario, In Recent Years Became Interested In The History Of Her Laidlaw Ancestors. Starting In The Wilds Of The Scottish Borders, She Learned A Great Deal About A Famous Ancestor, Born Around 1700, Who, As His Tombstone Records, “for Feats Of Frolic, Agility And Strength, Had No Equal In His Day.” She Traced The Family’s History With The Help Of That Man’s Nephew, The Famous Writer James Hogg, Finding To Her Delight That Each Generation Of The Family Had Produced A Writer Who Wanted To Record What Had Befallen Them. In This Way, She Was Able To Follow The Family’s Voyage To Canada In 1818, And Their Hard Times As Pioneers — Once A Father Dies On The Same Day That A Daughter Is Born In The Same Frontier Cabin. “i Put All This Material Together Over The Years,” Alice Tells Us, “and Almost

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Author
Alice Munro
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Published
2008
Language
EN
ISBN
9781551992716
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Short Stories, Fiction, Romance
Rating
3.9 / 5 (103 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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