Runaway

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FICTION/LITERATURE/SHORT STORIES
WINNER DF THE GILLER PRIZE
A NEW YORK TIMES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, ATLANTIC MONTHLY,
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS,
AND KANSAS CITY STAR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
"Runaway my very well be the synthesizing work of one of literature's keenest
investigators into the human soul." —USA Today
THE INCOMPARABLE ALICE MUNRO'S
bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of
extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and
surprises. 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 unforget-
table as our own.
"She outjoices Joyce and checkmates Chekhov____Each of the stories in Runaway
contains enough lived life to fill a typical novel____Her women are heroic— They
endure in the mind of the reader."... Tovább

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FICTION/LITERATURE/SHORT STORIES
WINNER DF THE GILLER PRIZE
A NEW YORK TIMES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, ATLANTIC MONTHLY,
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS,
AND KANSAS CITY STAR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
"Runaway my very well be the synthesizing work of one of literature's keenest
investigators into the human soul." —USA Today
THE INCOMPARABLE ALICE MUNRO'S
bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of
extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and
surprises. 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 unforget-
table as our own.
"She outjoices Joyce and checkmates Chekhov____Each of the stories in Runaway
contains enough lived life to fill a typical novel____Her women are heroic— They
endure in the mind of the reader." —The Boston Globe
"As with so many of Munro's stories, you read to have your premises altered and
deepened. Could anything be better? A beautiful new work." —Los Angeles Times
"The great Alice Munro proves again why short-story writers bow down to her."
—Vanity Fair
"Runaway ls a big dish of Beluga caviar, sailing in on a sparkling bed of ice,
with a mother-of-pearl spoon. You remember: This is why you eat, read, make love,
whatever—to be left silly with admiration and delight." —The Washington Post Vissza