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Best Nonfiction of 2006
Dec 29 2006, 9:40 AM EST
My best fiction read of 2006 was Alice Munro’s collection of short stories, The View From Castle Rock. Munro’s pieced together narratives out of questionable, handed-down stories, including each her recollections, archival research and powers of invention express a sense of loss and sadness that resonated with me. Her attempts to encounter the past directly, usually by finding a grave of some kind, rarely yield many epiphanies, but her ability to travel into the minds and feelings of people long dead, whose deaths were barely even recorded, is uncanny.
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RE: Best Nonfiction of 2006
Feb 28 2007, 4:43 PM EST
"My best fiction read of 2006 was Alice Munro’s collection of short stories, The View From Castle Rock. Munro’s pieced together narratives out of questionable, handed-down stories, including each her recollections, archival research and powers of invention express a sense of loss and sadness that resonated with me. Her attempts to encounter the past directly, usually by finding a grave of some kind, rarely yield many epiphanies, but her ability to travel into the minds and feelings of people long dead, whose deaths were barely even recorded, is uncanny. " Alison Lurie wrote a really interesting review and essay about this and some of Monro´s other books in the New York Review of Books. Check it out!
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