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More copies of this ISBN:Runaway: Storiesby Alice Munro
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Munro's prose consistently shimmers with wisdom and grace, and the stories in Runaway — startling, subtle, and precise — are no exception. Review-a-Day (What is Review-a-Day?)"Someone writing at this level well into her seventies, outliving the female friends to whose memory the book is dedicated and who must have been part of its inspiration, is a literary inspiration herself....Maybe even more stories are lying in wait. Such first-rate abundance is an astonishment in any lifetime, let alone that of a middle-class mother, and is — to rework Faulkner's quip regarding Keats — worth any number of young daughters. Though, of course, for the writer it is always more complicated than that. For the reader, however, it is a lovely and simple matter of greed and joy." Lorrie Moore, The Atlantic Monthly (read the entire Atlantic Monthly review) Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In Alice Munro's superb 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. Throughout this compelling collection, Alice Munro'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. It is Alice Munro's special gift to make these stories as vivid and real as our own. Review:"Retrospect and resolution, neither fully comprehended nor ultimately satisfying: such are the territories the masterful Munro explores in her tenth collection....In a word: magnificent." Kirkus Reviews Review:"[Munro's] sheer perception and eloquence make her one of the foremost contemporary practitioners of the short story in English....All this in a lovely, precise style." Booklist (Starred Review) Review:"[T]he author continues to perfect her virtuosic formula....One never knows quite where a Munro story will end, only that it will leave an incandescent trail of psychological insight." Publishers Weekly Review:"Munro does what most writers dream of doing and succeeds at it, page after page, story after story, collection after collection. Runaway...is no exception." The Oregonian (Portland, OR) Review:"A 'solid' collection, rather than a career-topping one. Just keep in mind that 'solid' in Munro's case is still better than almost anything else out there." Seattle Times Review:"Munro's new story collection will delight fans and convert those who have never before read her work. Her spare style belies the psychological depth of the stories....Recommended." Library Journal Synopsis:Alice Munro's superb new collection contains stories about women of all ages and circumstances, from a young woman who wants to leave her husband and a country girl who takes a job at a resort hotel to a woman who can foresee the future and its consequences. About the AuthorAlice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published ten previous collections of stories — Dance of the Happy Shades; Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You; The Beggar Maid; The Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; Friend of My Youth; Open Secrets; her Selected Stories; The Love of a Good Woman; and Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage — as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. 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 its Giller Prize, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England's W. H. Smith Book Award, and the United States' National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro and her husband divide their time between Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron, and Comox, British Columbia. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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