View from castle rock
Pocketbok. Random House UK. 2007. 349 sidor.
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Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780099497998
- Titel
- View from castle rock
- Författare
- Alice Munro
- Förlag
- Random House UK
- Utgivningsår
- 2007
- Omfång
- 349 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 130 x 198 mm Ryggbredd 24 mm
- Vikt
- 264 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- 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.
Random House UK
9780099497998
