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Original Title:	Runaway
ISBN:	1400077915 (ISBN13: 9781400077915)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Juliet
Literary Awards:	Scotiabank Giller Prize (2004), O. Henry Award for 'Passion' (2006), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in Caribbean and Canada (2005), Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (2004)

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The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named Juliet and the emotions that complicate the luster of her intimate relationships. 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. (back cover) Runaway Chance Soon Silence Passion Trespasses Tricks

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Title	:	Runaway
Author	:	Alice Munro
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Vintage Contemporaries Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 335 pages
Published	:	November 2005 by Vintage Contemporaries (first published August 11th 2003)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Cultural. Canada

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Runaway is one of the short story collections of 2013 Nobel Prize winner, Canadian Alice Munro. I listened to the book, and really liked it, though I am a white middle-class, late-middle-aged man, and this book features white middle-class Canadian (particularly from Ontario) women, many of them late-middle aged. The focus is on stories of women and girls, on relationships, sometimes with men, and the every day, in every day language. They are unfussy, unpretentious, realistic literary fiction. I

One of Munro's best books, Runaway is also one of her most thematically consistent collections. The idea of "running away" or "escape" permeates each tale. And what to make of the fact that the book consists of clipped, one-word titles? Intriguing.I love the linked sequence of three narratives ("Chance," "Soon," and "Silence"), and if you read carefully you'll see each of those words is repeated significantly in other stories, especially "chance." (Think of the chain of events in "Tricks," the

I do not usually prefer short stories, but Alice Munro's "Runaway" is an exception. Munro's work as a whole, in fact. Everybody knows that short stories are more difficult to perfect than the novel, thus the lack of well-written ones. What makes her sorry stories stand out? One notable difference is that Munro's short stories are actually not that short. Strictly in words, many lean towards the lengthier "definition". (Short stories are not defined by length as much as structure. Although

Runaway: Noun or Verb?As a noun, runaway conjures a fairly specific character and situation.Image: Runaway child with backpack But as a phrasal verb, running away is often much broader and more metaphorical.Right now, writing this, while sitting at my laptop, Im running away from planning a conference presentation. In the past, I have run away from physical fear (trying to climb a net); a job I hated so much it was making me ill; and from potential rejection (and thus from possible acceptance).

Runaway: Stories, Alice MunroRunaway is a book of short stories by Alice Munro. First published in 2004 by McClelland and Stewart, it was awarded that year's Giller Prize and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.There are eight short stories in the book. Three of the stories ("Chance", "Soon", and "Silence") are about a single character named "Juliet Henderson"."Runaway" a woman is trapped in a bad marriage."Chance" Juliet takes a train trip which leads to an affair."Soon" Juliet visits her

Carla is a young woman who eloped with Clark, his former horse-riding teacher, to live her farm dream. As it usually happens in real life, the dream turns out to be a rather gloomy nightmare. Clark has fits of moodiness and treats her with despise and coldness. Carla's neighbor Sylvie hires her to take care of the house while she tends to her moribund husband. A strong bond develops between the two women, and for a moment, the reader has high hopes for Carla: will she be resilient enough to

Thank you, Lev Grossman for comparing my work to Alice Munro and letting me know of her existence. I'm nothing like her, but that doesn't matter, she's wonderful, and now I can read everything she's written, yay!