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The incomparable Alice Munro's bestselling and
rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book
of extraordinary stories about women of all ages and circumstances—and about love
and its infinite betrayals and surprises. The runaway of the title story is a
young woman who 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 insight, the limits and lies of passion. Three stories concern
a woman named Juliet—in the first, she escapes from teaching at a girls' school
into a wild love affair; in the second, she returns with her child to the home
of her parents, whose marriage she finally begins to examine; and in the last,
her vanished child turns up caught in the grip of a religious cult. In these
and other stories, Alice Munro's understanding of the people about whom she
writes makes their lives as real as our own.
The incomparable Alice Munro's bestselling and
rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book
of extraordinary stories about women of all ages and circumstances—and about love
and its infinite betrayals and surprises. The runaway of the title story is a
young woman who 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 insight, the limits and lies of passion. Three stories concern
a woman named Juliet—in the first, she escapes from teaching at a girls' school
into a wild love affair; in the second, she returns with her child to the home
of her parents, whose marriage she finally begins to examine; and in the last,
her vanished child turns up caught in the grip of a religious cult. In these
and other stories, Alice Munro's understanding of the people about whom she
writes makes their lives as real as our own.
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Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature,
grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario.
She has published eleven collections of stories and two volumes of selected
stories, as well as a novel. 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
United States' National Book Critics Circle Award, the Edward MacDowell Medal
in literature, and the Man Booker International Prize. Her stories have
appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been
translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake
Huron.
Reviews-
The subtle and exquisitely polished stories of Alice Munro are among the literary marvels of our time, and Kymberly Dakin conveys effectively the peculiar blend of Canadian "haut provincialism" that provides the tone, context, and so much of the humor of Munro's finest stories. Each of these eight stories features a runaway of some kind; dramatic events are most often filtered through the consciousness and recollection of the female protagonist. Dakin, who also narrated Munro's last story collection, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, works successfully in a narrow band of vocals and tones, grasping that these are stories of voice and of distance, in which motive and outcome often remain mysterious, and in which evenness of delivery is part of the drama of the telling. D.A.W. 2006 Audie Award Winner (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
Starred review from October 11, 2004 Nothing is new in Munro's latest collection, which is to say that the author continues to perfect her virtuosic formula in these eight short stories, several of which previously appeared in the New Yorker . While her style typifies the traditionally realistic, often domestic genre of that magazine, Munro's stories are also global, bighearted and warm. In the title story, a housekeeper tries to leave her emotionally abusive husband, entangling her employer in the process. Three interconnected stories—"Chance," "Soon" and "Silence"—follow a schoolteacher as she falls for an older man, returns as a young mother to visit her ailing parents on their farm and much later tries to "rescue" her daughter from a religious cult. In "Tricks," a lonely nurse on a day trip encounters a man from Montenegro and vows to return to his clock shop one year later to resume their affair. In deliberate prose, Munro captures their fleeting moment of passion on a train platform: "This talk felt more and more like an agreed-upon subterfuge, like a conventional screen for what was becoming more inevitable all the time, more necessary, between them." Munro's characters are hopeful and proud as they face both the betrayals and gestures of kindness that animate their relationships. One never knows quite where a Munro story will end, only that it will leave an incandescent trail of psychological insight. Agent, William Morris. 100,000 first printing.
The subtle and exquisitely polished stories of Alice Munro are among the literary marvels of our time, and Kymberly Dakin conveys effectively the peculiar blend of Canadian "haut provincialism" that provides the tone, context, and so much of the humor of Munro's finest stories. Each of these eight stories features a runaway of some kind; dramatic events are most often filtered through the consciousness and recollection of the female protagonist. Dakin, who also narrated Munro's last story collection, HATESHIP, FRIENDSHIP, COURTSHIP, LOVESHIP, MARRIAGE, works successfully in a narrow band of vocals and tones, grasping that these are stories of voice and of distance, in which motive and outcome often remain mysterious, and in which evenness of delivery is part of the drama of the telling. D.A.W. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
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The subtle and exquisitely polished stories of Alice Munro are among the literary marvels of our time, and Kymberly Dakin conveys effectively the peculiar blend of Canadian "haut provincialism" that provides the tone, context, and so much of the humor of Munro's finest stories. Each of these eight stories features a runaway of some kind; dramatic events are most often filtered through the consciousness and recollection of the female protagonist. Dakin, who also narrated Munro's last story collection, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, works successfully in a narrow band of vocals and tones, grasping that these are stories of voice and of distance, in which motive and outcome often remain mysterious, and in which evenness of delivery is part of the drama of the telling. D.A.W. 2006 Audie Award Winner (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
