The View from Castle Rock

Resumen del libro

On a clear day, you could see America' from Edinburgh's Castle Rock or so said Alice Munro's great-great-great-grandfather, James Laidlaw, when he had drink taken. Then, in 1818, Laidlaw left the parish of 'no advantages', of banked Presbyterian emotions and uncanny tales where, like his more famous cousin James Hogg, he was born and bred and sailed to the new world with his family. This is the story of those shepherds from the Ettrick Valley and their descendants, among them the author herself. They were a Spartan lot, who kept to themselves; showing off was frowned on, and fear was commonplace, at least for females

But opportunities present themselves for two strong-minded women in a ship's close quarters; a father dies, and a baby vanishes en route from Illinois to Canada; another story hints at incest; childhood is short and hazardous. This is family history where imperfect recollections blur into fiction, where the past shows through the present like the tracks of a glacier on a geological map. First love flowers under an apple tree while lust rears its head in a barn; a restless mother with ideas beyond her station declines painfully; a father farms fox fur and turkeys; a clever girl escapes to college and then into a hasty marriage. Beneath the ordinary landscape there's a different story evocative, frightening, sexy, unexpected, gripping. Alice Munro tells it like no other.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Alice Munrox{0026}lt;/B creció en Wingham (Ontario) en el seno de una familia de granjeros y estudió en la Universidad de Western Ontario. Es autora de catorce volúmenes de relatos, varias antologías y una novela. Sus cuentos han aparecido en revistas como x{0026}lt;I The New Yorkerx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Atlantic Monthly x{0026}lt;/I ox{0026}lt;I The Paris Reviewx{0026}lt;/I y han sido traducidos a trece idiomas.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P A lo largo de su dilatada trayectoria ha recibido numerosos galardones, entre los que destacan el Governor Generalx{0026} x02019;s Award (en tres ocasiones); el Giller Prize (en dos); el National Book Critics Circle Award; el Rea Award; el Lannan Literary Award; el Premio Ennio Flaiano; el W. H. Smith Literary Award; el prestigioso Man Booker International Prize, que le fue otorgado en 2009 por la gran contribución de su obra al panorama literario mundial , y el Premio Nobel de Literatura, que recibió en 2013 por su maestría en el arte del relato .x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Lumen ha publicadox{0026}lt;I La vida de las mujeres x{0026}lt;/I (1971); x{0026}lt;I Demasiada felicidad x{0026}lt;/I (2009); x{0026}lt;I Mi vida querida x{0026}lt;/I (2012); la selección de sus mejores relatos, que ella misma compiló bajo el títulox{0026}lt;I Todo queda en casa x{0026}lt;/I (2014);x{0026}lt;I ¿Quién te crees que eres? x{0026}lt;/I (2019); x{0026}lt;I Algo que quería contarte x{0026}lt;/I (2021), y x{0026}lt;I Danza de las sombrasx{0026}lt;/I (2022).x{0026}lt;/P