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"RUNAWAY" is the first story in this stunning collection, which is sure to be a runaway success. All of the eight stories here are new, published book form for the first time. Two of the eight have never appeared anywhere. so this will be a special feast for the millions of Munro fans around the world.
Miraculously, these stories seem to have been written by a young writer at the peak of her powers. Alice Munro's central characters range from fourteen-year-old Lauren in "Trespass," through the young couple in "Runaway," whose helpful older neighbour intervenes to help the Wife escape. Just as vivid. just as real, is the seventy-year-old woman meeting a friend of her youth on a Vancouver street and sitting with him to recall their tangled lives fifty years earlier, through a web of cheerful lies.
Three of the stories. 'Chance," "Soon," and 'Silence," linked, showing us how the young teacher Juliet meets her fisherman lover on a train (and makes a terribly mis- timed visit to his B.C. home); how, years later, she brings baby Penelope back east to show her parents and learns sad secrets about them; and how, twenty years on, she goes to see Penelope in her cult-like B.C. community. The result is more powerful than most novels, a quality in Alice Munro's stories that has been noted by many reviewers. As always we are reminded that for her people love is, as one reviewer wrote, "a blend of water and fire." As always in her stories everything connects.
The final story. "Powers," spans fifty years and runs from Goderich to Vancouver showing us four strong characters, each of whom steps forward to dominate the scene, not least Tessa, the plain girl whose psychic powers take her on the vaudeville circuit But it is Alice Munro's own powers that dominate this collection and that will amaze reviewers and readers. How can she keep getting better? How can any one person know so much about the heads and hearts of so many different people? And how can she weave them together in stories that delight academics and ordinary readers alike. making each new Alice Munro book a literary event and a runaway bestseller?
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Women, Fiction, relationships, Open Library Staff Picks, short stories, prose & criticism, Short Stories (single author), Canadian Short stories, Fiction, short stories (single author), Chinese language materials, Xuan ji, Duan pian xiao shuo, Russian Short stories, New York Times reviewedTimes
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Runaway: Stories
2005 March, Alfred A. Knopf, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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Runaway: Stories (Audio Editions)
November 1, 2005, The Audio Partners, AudioGO, Audio Partners
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Runaway: Stories
2005 November, Vintage Contemporaries
Paperback
in English
- 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed. (7)
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Runaway: Stories (Rumpole Crime)
November 2004, BBC Audiobooks America
Audio cassette
in English
0792733673 9780792733676
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Runaway: Stories (Rumpole Crime)
November 2004, BBC Audiobooks America
Audio Cassette
in English
- Unabridged edition
0792733665 9780792733669
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Runaway is a book of short stories by Alice Munro. First published in 2004 by McClelland and Stewart, it was awarded that year's Giller Prize and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
Contains:
Runaway
Chance
Soon
Silence
Passion
Trespasses
Tricks
Powers
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