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Runaway

Alice Munro
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780099472254
  • Weight: 257g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Feb 2006
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite short story collection.

**WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JONATHAN FRANZEN**

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 before.

‘The way to do it justice is to read it. Read Munro!’ Jonathan Franzen

‘These stories are breathtaking - they leave you winded with their toughness and brilliance’ Guardian

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009
About Alice Munro
Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She 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 WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as The Beggar Maid), and was awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro died in 2024.

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