Runaway

Stories

by Alice Munro

Paperback, 335 pages

English language

Published Nov. 4, 2005 by Vintage Contemporaries.

OCLC Number:: 879122637

(10 reviews)

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)

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rmd reviewed Fugitives by Alice Munro

De beaux récits intimes, remplis d'espoir, d'amour, de malheur et de souffrance

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8 nouvelles sur des femmes dont la vie a changé (ou pas) suite à diverses circonstances : fuite d'un mari brutal, rencontre imprévue... Certains personnages reviennent d'une nouvelle à l'autre à divers moments de leur vie. De beaux récits intimes, remplis d'espoir, d'amour, de malheur et de souffrance, racontés sans pathos, sans moralisation, juste avec le partage pudique d'intimité, dans un style dépouillé, sans fioriture, au plus près des personnages.

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Review of 'Runaway' on Goodreads

4 stars

Mild stories of Canadian women figuring out adulthood in the Sixties, short stories but not small and progressing to somewhere complicated and darker.

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Review of 'Runaway' on 'GoodReads'

4 stars

Super collection of stories that dip their toes into varied topics, but with a place-based commonality that keeps the book interesting from start to finish. Excellent prose and dialogue, occasionally surreal and outstandingly sincere.

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Review of 'Runaway' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I'd heard how good Alice Munro is and how she's the best living short story writer but as a guy, the domestic detail themes were putting me off, a little.
If you are male and think this writer isn't for you, you'd be wrong. If you are a feeling human being you'll get something from them. She has a way of letting the stories resonate with each other, so that they move deeper feelings like really good poetry, yet on the surface there is nothing flashy, just "ordinary" lives, being lived out.
Some of the stories are connected with the same characters and some are separate, but I come away with the feeling of a unified force.