num_pages: 335
description: 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.
language: English
title: Runaway
titlecomplete: Runaway
characters: Juliet
genres: Short Stories, Nobel Prize, Book Club, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Canadian Literature, Canada, Womens
ratings_count: 24119
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: O. Henry Award
category: 'Passion', awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in Caribbean and Canada, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
publisher: Vintage