num_pages: 564
description: In Alice Munro's superb new collection, we find stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of this incomparable writer.The 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 in a single moment of stunning insight the limits and lies of that mysterious emotion. In the final story, "Powers," a young woman with the ability to read the future sets off a chain of events that involves her in a lifelong pursuit of what such a gift really means, and who really has it.Throughout this compelling collection, Alice Munro's understanding of the people about whom she writes makes them as vivid as our own neighbors. Here are the infinite betrayals and surprises of love that are the stuff of all our lives. It is Alice Munro's special gift to make these stories as vivid and real as our own.--front flap
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: Random House Large Print