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Runaway : stories / Alice Munro.

by Munro, Alice, 1931-2024-

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McClelland & Stewart, c2004.

9780143177395 (2010 Penguin Modern Classics trade pbk.)

9780143050711 (trade pbk.)

9780771065064 (acid-free paper)

077106506X (acid-free paper)

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335 p. ; 24 cm.

[Author is the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature].

"A Douglas Gibson book".

Eight stories published in book form for the first time. Three of the stories have never appeared anywhere before.

2010 Penguin Modern Classics trade paperback includes an introduction by Kim Echlin.

Runaway -- Chance -- Soon -- Silence -- Passion -- Trespasses -- Tricks -- Powers.

"In Alice Munro's new collection, we find stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of this incomparable writer." The runaway of the title story is a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband. In "Passion," a country girl emerging into the larger world via a job in a resort hotel discovers in a single moment of stunning insight the limits and lies of that mysterious emotion. Three stories are about a woman named Juliet - in the first, she escapes from teaching at a girls' school into a wild and irresistible love match; in the second she returns with her child to the home of her parents, whose life and marriage she finally begins to examine; and in the last, her child, caught, she mistakenly thinks, in the grip of a religious cult, vanishes into an unexplained and profound silence. In the final story, "Powers," a young woman with the ability to read the future sets off a chain of events that involves her husband-to-be and a friend in a lifelong pursuit of what such a gift really means, and who really has it."--Publisher.

Winner of the Giller Prize, 2004.

Short stories, Canadian.

Canadian fiction.

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