The View from Castle Rock

Cultural

Author: Alice Munro

A powerful new collection from one of our most beloved, admired, and honored writers.,,In stories that are more personal than any that she’s written before, Alice Munro pieces her family’s history into gloriously imagined fiction. A young boy is taken to Edinburgh’s Castle Rock, where his father assures him that on a clear day he can see America, and he catches a glimpse of….Read More

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