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Runaway

By Alice Munro
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Runaway by Alice Munro is a collection of short stories that explore the hidden complexities of ordinary lives. Each story delves into themes of love, betrayal and escape, revealing the intricacies of human relationships with Munro's characteristic insight and depth, while capturing the subtle nuances of life’s turning points.
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This collection of short stories captures the complexities of human relationships and the intricacies of everyday life with precision and empathy. You might enjoy this book if you appreciate finely crafted narratives that explore themes of love, loss, and self-discovery, delivered by an author known for her masterful storytelling and deep psychological insight.

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Runaway

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**

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

Newly re-jacketed for a new generation, the bestselling collection by the greatest short story writer in the world and winner of the Man Booker International Prize.

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The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this dazzling new collection. At its centre are three stories connected into one marvellously rich narrative about Juliet—who escapes from teaching at a girls' school and throws herself into a wild and passionate love match.

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.

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Alice Munro's Runaway is praised for its insightful portrayal of human nature, capturing characters' thoughts with simplicity and empathy. Critics highlight the collection as a masterpiece, with its profound impact best appreciated through reading it. The stories are described as tough, brilliant, and beautifully executed, showcasing Munro's exceptional storytelling ability.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780099472254

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 February 2006

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 257g

Pages: 368

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About the Author

Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She 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 Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as The Beggar Maid), and was 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. Alice Munro died in 2024.

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