Runaway: As seen on BBC Between The Covers

Munro, Alice

ISBN 10: 0099472252 / ISBN 13: 9780099472254

Published by Vintage, 2005

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Synopsis:

The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite short story collection.

**WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JONATHAN FRANZEN**

Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance and empathy of Munro's writing. Runaway is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances. There is pain and desolation beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart, which makes these stories more powerful and compelling than anything she has written before.

‘The way to do it justice is to read it. Read Munro!’ Jonathan Franzen

‘These stories are breathtaking - they leave you winded with their toughness and brilliance’ Guardian

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009

About the Author:

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**

Alice Munro was born in 1931 and is the author of thirteen collections of stories, most recently Dear Life, and a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She has received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The Beggar Maid, and has been awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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 Port Hope, Ontario, near lake Ontario in Canada.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Runaway: As seen on BBC Between The Covers
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good