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View From Castle Rock
On a clear day you could see America from Edinburghs Castle Rock - or so said Alice Munros 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 ships 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 theres a different story - evocative frightening sexy unexpected gripping. Alice Munro tells it like no other.
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 theres a different story - evocative frightening sexy unexpected gripping. Alice Munro tells it like no other.
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