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Runaway : stories / Alice Munro.

Summary:

"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 a single moment of stunning insight and the limits and lies of that mysterious emotion. Three stories, the inspiration for the award-winning movie Julieta, are about a woman named Juliet--in the first, she escapes from teaching at a girls' school into a wild and irresistible love match; in the second she returns with her child to the home of her parents, whose life and marriage she finally begins to examine; and in the last, her child, caught, she mistakenly thinks, in the grip of a religious cult, vanishes into an unexplained and profound silence. In the final story, "Powers," a young woman with the ability to read the future sets off a chain of events that involves her husband-to-be and a friend in a lifelong pursuit of what such a gift really means, and who really has it. 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." -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1400077915
  • ISBN: 9781400077915
  • Physical Description: 335 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: 1st Vintage International edition
  • Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published: New York : Knopf, 2004.
Formatted Contents Note:
Runaway -- Chance -- Soon -- Silence -- Passion -- Trespasses -- Tricks -- Powers.
Subject:
Women > Fiction.
Women.
Womyn.
Genre:
Fiction.

Available copies

  • 38 of 39 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Iredell County Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 39 total copies.
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