The View from Castle Rock

Alice Munro's brilliant new collection of stories, the follow-up to the New York Times Best Book of the Year Runaway. Some of these personal stories are imagined from Alice Munro's family history. Some are set in Scotland, where good liquor and amorous adventures temper the hard lives of legendary forbears in a place described by local records as having "no advantages." Others take place in the more familiar Munro territory around Lake Huron. All will amaze and delight listeners with their rich insights and astonishing epiphanies.