ISBN: 9780099472254    Publisher: Random House Year of publishing: 2006     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 368        Language: English

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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Winner of the Man Booker International Prize for 2009, Alice Munro is the author of twelve collections of stories, most recently 'Too Much Happiness', and a novel, 'Lives of Girls and Women'. She has 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 W.H. Smith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for 'The Beggar Maid'. Her stories have appeared in 'The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review', and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives with her husband in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron in Canada.
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