Runaway

ISBN: 1400077915

Author: Munro, Alice

Condition: New

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Eight sparkling [and] beautifully drawn (Entertainment Weekly) stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice MunroEach of the stories in Runaway contains enough lived life to fill a typical novel.-The Boston GlobeOne of the New York Timess 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyWINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlantic Monthly, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, San Jose Mercury News, Kansas City StarThe runaway of the title story is a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband. In Passion, a country girl emerging into the larger world via a job in a resort hotel discovers a single moment of stunning insight and the limits and lies of that mysterious emotion. Three stories, the inspiration for the award-winning movie Julieta, are about a woman named Juliet-in the first, she escapes from teaching at a girls school into a wild and irresistible love match; in the second she returns with her child to the home of her parents, whose life and marriage she finally begins to examine; and in the last, her child, caught, she mistakenly thinks, in the grip of a religious cult, vanishes into an unexplained and profound silence. In the final story, Powers, a young woman with the ability to read the future sets off a chain of events that involves her husband-to-be and a friend in a lifelong pursuit of what such a gift really means, and who really has it.In Munros 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.