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Runaway
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Series: Vintage International
General FictionLiterary Fiction
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ISBN10: 1400077915
ISBN13: 9781400077915
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Nov 8 2005
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.50 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781400077915
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Nov 8 2005
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.50 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Eight sparkling [and] beautifully drawn (Entertainment Weekly) stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro
Each of the stories in Runaway contains enough lived life to fill a typical novel.--The Boston Globe
Each of the stories in Runaway contains enough lived life to fill a typical novel.--The Boston Globe
One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlantic Monthly, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, San Jose Mercury News, Kansas City Star 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 a single moment of stunning insight and the limits and lies of that mysterious emotion. Three stories, the inspiration for the award-winning movie Julieta, 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. In Munro's hands, the people she writes about--women of all ages and circumstances, and their friends, lovers, parents, and children--become as vivid as our own neighbors. It is her miraculous gift to make these stories as real and unforgettable as our own.
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