The View from Castle Rock

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The View from Castle Rock

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Canadian literature
Fiction
…the Happy Shades (1968) to The View from Castle Rock (2006)—depict the domestic lives and relationships of women in Toronto, small-town Ontario, and British Columbia in an increasingly enigmatic style. Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers (1966) probes the relationship between sainthood, violence, eroticism, and artistic creativity. Mavis Gallant
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…the Happy Shades (1968) to The View from Castle Rock (2006)—depict the domestic lives and relationships of women in Toronto, small-town Ontario, and British Columbia in an increasingly enigmatic style. Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers (1966) probes the relationship between sainthood, violence, eroticism, and artistic creativity. Mavis Gallant
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Alice Munro
Later work
The View from Castle Rock (2007) combines history, family memoir, and fiction into narratives of questionable inquiries and obscure replies. In 2009 Munro won the Man Booker International Prize (now the Booker Prize); that same year she published the short-story collection Too Much Happiness.
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The View from Castle Rock (2007) combines history, family memoir, and fiction into narratives of questionable inquiries and obscure replies. In 2009 Munro won the Man Booker International Prize (now the Booker Prize); that same year she published the short-story collection Too Much Happiness.
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