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The View from Castle Rock
by Munro, Alice
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0771065264
- ISBN 13
- 9780771065262
- Seller
-
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 2006. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Black cloth with silver lettering, headband, 349 pages, Near Fine condition, Dust Jacket is in Near Fine condition. Alice Munro is the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Contents include: Foreword / No Advantages / The View from Castle Rock / Illinois / The Wilds of Morris Township / Working for a Living / Fathers / Lying Under the Apple Tree / Hired Girl / The Ticket / Home / What Do You Want to Know For? / Messenger. Check out the scans. . First Edition First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Paul Peel jacket illustrator, . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".
Synopsis
Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and two volumes of Selected Stories. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England’s W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Granta, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nessa Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010422
- Title
- The View from Castle Rock
- Author
- Munro, Alice
- Illustrator
- Paul Peel jacket illustrator,
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0771065264
- ISBN 13
- 9780771065262
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, ON, Canada
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Munro, Alice The View from Castle Rock Paul Peel jacket illustrator, McClelland & Stewart 0771065264 -----The scan you see is the book you get. Black cloth with silver lettering, headband, 349 pages, Near Fine condition, Dust Jacket is in Near Fine
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; CanLit;
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