The View From Castle Rock - Couverture souple

Munro, Alice

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0701179899 ISBN 13 : 9780701179892

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 2006

Synopsis

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. This is the story of those Ettrick shepherds and their descendants, among them the author herself.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as The Beggar Maid), and was awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro died in 2024.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0701179899
• ISBN 13: 9780701179892
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 368
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• Personne responsable: non disponible