Short Story Collections by Alice Munro: The View from Castle Rock, Lives of Girls and Women, Runaway, Who Do You Think You Are?

Chapters: The View From Castle Rock, Lives of Girls and Women, Runaway, Who Do You Think You Are?, the Love of a Good Woman, Dance of the Happy Shades, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Selected Stories, Too Much Happiness, No Love Lost, the Moons of Jupiter, Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You, the Progress of Love, Open Secrets, Friend of My Youth, Vintage Munro. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 42. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The View from Castle Rock is a book of short stories by Canadian author Alice Munro, published in 2006 by McClelland and Stewart. It is a collection of historical and autobiographical stories. The first part of the book narrates the lives of members of the Laidlaw branch of the family tree of the author, starting from their Scottish origins in the 1700s. The second part consists of fictionalized tales inspired by events in her own life. This narrative retells the lives of members of the Laidlaw family who lived in Ettrick Valley, Scotland, in the eighteenth century. The title comes from the judgment by the Statistical Account of Scotland in 1799 that This parish possesses no advantages. Will O'Phaup was a mythical man, who was a prodigious runner, a bootlegger, and a heavy drinker; he had encounters with fairies and ghosts. Thomas Boston was the local presbyterian preacher at the same time; he wrote on matters of faith, he was obsessed with religious guilt, his ideas were borderline heretical, he had a very hard life. James Hogg and James Laidlaw were cousins; Hogg became a poet and friend of Walter Scott, while Laidlaw was a man of modern ideas but traditional mentality, who was obsessed with going to America, where he eventually took his family when he was already in his old age. This story narrates the voyage of James Laidlaw...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=781427