WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) 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.
She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron..
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.
In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize.
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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.
She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and two volumes of Selected Stories.
About the Author: Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario.
The View from Castle Rock reveals what is most essential in Munro\'s art: her compassionate understanding of ordinary lives.
Wives, mothers, fathers, and children move through uncertainty, ambivalence, and contemplation in these stories of hopes, adversity, and wonder.
Scottish immigrants experience love and loss on a journey that leads them to rural Ontario.
A young boy, taken to Edinburgh\'s Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father\'s dream.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) 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
