The View from Castle Rock
- Published: 1 August 2011
- ISBN: 9781409020585
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 368
A collection that sees her delving even deeper and with glittering expertise into a fictional terrain she has made her own for 40 years now
Peter Kemp, Sunday Times
The pre-eminent master of the short story... all delivered by her spare, wonderful prose
David Mattin, Independent on Sunday
If there is one writer who proves that the short story should never be deemed the uninspiring younger sibling of the novel, it is Munro
Melissa McClements, Financial Times
This is a deeply moving and contemplative book. If it is a valediction, then it is a magnificent one
Mary Morrissy, Irish Times
Mesmerising and cleverly interlinked, these stories are well balanced - neither overly inventive nor stolidly factual. Ms Munro's light touch and her sensitive embellishment of the truth result in a book that is illuminated by the patterns of life repeating themselves over the years
Economist
One of my very favourite writers
Claire Tomalin, Writers’ and Critics’ pick of 2006, Guardian
A stunning achievement
Sarah Emily Miano, The Times
The power of Munro's storytelling never falters. It is almost otiose to add to the clamour of praise for her writing, but necessary, nevertheless. This is a remarkable book
Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph
Munro's genius, as she imagines what is going on inside the closed worlds of individual lives, has to do with her exceptional openness to other people's words, to the shapes of their understanding and their ways of seeing
Tessa Hadley, London Review of Books
Beautifully written, this delicate interweaving of fact and fiction is Munro on top form
Daily Mail
This is a rare and fascinating work, in which the past makes sense of the present and the present makes sense of the past
Karl Miller, Guardian
This is a remarkable book...anyone who has ever felt the pull of the secret past should read it and marvel
Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph
A memoir that has taken a breath, and expanded itself beyond the genre and beyond the confines of one life
Hilary Mantel, Guardian
Incomparable
Independent
Unbelievably good
Literary Review
Beautifully conceived, evocative and moving
Good Book Guide