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At the centre of Runaway are three stories connected into one marvellously rich, long narrative, about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school into a wild and passionate love match; then returns to the home of her parents, whose life and curious marriage she finally begins to examine; while in the third part of her story, her vanished child turns up caught in the grip of a religious cult. The whole picture emerges only when all the pieces of the jigsaw are finally in place. The runaway of the disturbing title story is Carla, a congenital 'bolter', who has neighbourly fantasies that take on a frightening afterlife...Elsewhere, a stagestruck girl finds life is more Shakespearean than even she imagines; while Tessa, a young country woman with strange powers cannot foresee what will happen if she makes off with a plausible charmer. Munro's stories unravel layers of the past, and different versions of the truth: her characters learn that if you look too closely at anything - the past, the truth - it may crumble. Runaway is about the power and betrayals, and twists, of love, about lost children, lost chances. There is pain and desolation beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart, which makes them more powerful and compelling than anything she has written. Munro is a magician with words, but also with layers of life and emotion.
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''There seems nothing missing in this yet again brilliant collection...a literary inspiration' -- Lorrie Moore
'Alice Munro has a strong claim to being the best fiction wirter in North America. Runaway is a marvel' -- Jonathan Franzen
'Her genius cannot be denied...The contemporary writer I admire above all others' -- Paul Bailey, The Independent
'Magic...It is a beautiful, echoing collection, and a demonstration of perfected and unflinching form' -- Ali Smith, Scotsman
'The stories of Alice Munro make everyone else's look like the work of babies' -- Ethan Canin
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'Alice Munro has a strong claim to being the best fiction wirter in North America. Runaway is a marvel' -- Jonathan Franzen
'Her genius cannot be denied...The contemporary writer I admire above all others' -- Paul Bailey, The Independent
'Magic...It is a beautiful, echoing collection, and a demonstration of perfected and unflinching form' -- Ali Smith, Scotsman
'The stories of Alice Munro make everyone else's look like the work of babies' -- Ethan Canin
A brilliant new collection from the matchless Munro who is recognized as one of the greatest living short story writers, and who makes art out of everyday lives. Her most powerful and compelling work yet.
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0701177500
- ISBN 13 9780701177508
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages356
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