The View from Castle Rock (Vintage International) - Softcover

"Masterful. . . . Munro really does know magic: how to summon the spirits and the emotions that animate our lives." --The Washington Post Book World

"Fascinating. . . . Munro's powers are at their peak. . . . She continues to charge forward, shining a light on what is most fearsome and true." --Chicago Tribune

"Exhilarating. . . . [Munro's] ability to travel into the minds and feelings of people long dead is uncanny." --The New York Times Book Review

"Revelatory. . . . A work of aching authenticity." --The Boston Globe

Praise from fellow writers:

"Her work felt revolutionary when I came to it, and it still does." --Jhumpa Lahiri

"She is one of the handful of writers, some living, most dead, whom I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion." --Jonthan Franzen

"The authority she brings to the page is just lovely." --Elizabeth Strout

"She's the most savage writer I've ever read, also the most tender, the most honest, the most perceptive." --Jeffery Eugenides

"Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can."--Julian Barnes

"She is a short-story writer who...reimagined what a story can do." --Loorie Moore

"There's probably no one alive who's better at the craft of the short story." --Jim Shepard

"A true master of the form." --Salman Rushdie

"A wonderful writer." --Joyce Carol Oates

An evocative and compelling compilation of short fiction by the award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman and other works journeys from the Scotland of the author's own family heritage and a ship en route to the New World, to a family odyssey from Illinois to Canada and in and around Lake Huron. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.