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Runaway: stories

Alice Munro's new collection finds stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of this incomparable writer.

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  • "Alice Munro's new collection finds stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of this incomparable writer."@en
  • "'Runaway' is a collection of short stories connected by the story of Juliet. She escapes from teaching into a wild and passionate love match, then returns to the home of her parents, whose life and curious marriage she begins to examine, then her child turns up caught in the grip of a religious cult."
  • "Stories about women of all ages and circumstances."
  • "Captivating readers with astounding insights into humanity, Alice Munro delivers some of her finest prose in this stunning collection of short stories. In "Runaway," a neighbor helps a wife escape from her husband; in "Passion," alcoholism disrupts a young woman's first love affair; in "Trespasses," 14-year old Lauren learns a disturbing secret about her birth; and in "Tricks," a woman falls for a stranger and agrees to meet him in the same place the following year. The trilogy "Chance," "Soon," and "Silence" depicts a young teacher, Juliet, who meets her lover on a train and then, by terrible chance, visits his home on the day after his wife's funeral. The concluding story, "Powers," spans 50 years, several towns, and four characters including Tessa, whose psychic powers take her on the vaudeville circuit."
  • "[This novel tells a] story [of] 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. Throughout this compelling collection, [the author's] understanding of the people about whom she writes makes them as vivid as our own neighbors. Here are the infinite betrayals and surprises of love between men and women, between friends, between parents and children that are the stuff of all our lives. -Dust jacket."
  • ""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.""@en
  • "The stories in this collection are about women of all ages and circumstances. The runaway of the title story is a young woman who is incapable of leaving her husband. In another, 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 the same woman--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."@en
  • "Stories are about women of all ages and circumstances."

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  • "Short stories"
  • "Downloadable audio books"
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  • "Fiction"
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