James Tait Memorial Prize

“The View from Castle Rock” Alice Munro

Buried In Print2017-07-25T11:27:20-04:00

The title story in this collection follows "No Advantages" closely. It presents Old James the father, Andrew, Walter, and their sister Mary, Andrew’s wife Agnes, and Agnes and Andrew’s son James,"under two years old", and recounts their experiences from "the harbor of Leith, on the 4th of June, 1818, [when] they set

“The View from Castle Rock” Alice MunroBuried In Print2017-07-25T11:27:20-04:00

“No Advantages” Alice Munro

Buried In Print2017-07-25T11:27:31-04:00

McClelland & Stewart, 2006 The View from Castle Rock was not one of my favourite Alice Munro collections. Although I rushed to read it upon publication, I didn’t enjoy it as much as Runaway. On rereading, I planned a different approach. In the past, I read the collection

“No Advantages” Alice MunroBuried In Print2017-07-25T11:27:31-04:00

Radically and Shamefully, False and Authentic

Buried In Print2014-03-09T18:08:32-04:00

Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections Harper, 2001 They splotch the busy reader's bookshelf: those oversized contemporary novels that you haven't read yet. You expect Dickens and Trollope and Tolstoy to span the reading weeks, but you expect contemporary novels to be more portable, more succinct, more zip-through-able. It makes it harder

Radically and Shamefully, False and AuthenticBuried In Print2014-03-09T18:08:32-04:00