Runaway, Alice Munro
Runaway, Alice Munro
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Runaway
Stories

Author: Alice Munro

Narrator: Kymberly Dakin

Unabridged: 10 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/15/2008

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories, Women

Synopsis

The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about women of all ages and circumstances—and about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises.The runaway of the title story is a young woman who 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 insight, the limits and lies of passion.Three stories concern a woman named Juliet—in the first, she escapes from teaching at a girls’ school into a wild love affair; in the second, she returns with her child to the home of her parents, whose marriage she finally begins to examine; and in the last, her vanished child turns up caught in the grip of a religious cult.In these and other stories, Alice Munro’s understanding of the people about whom she writes makes their lives as real as our own.

About Alice Munro

Alice Munro (1931–2024) was the author of eleven collections of stories and two volumes of selected stories, as well as a novel. She won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as many other awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards, two Giller Prizes, the Man Booker International Prize, the Lannan Literary Award, W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and more. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, and other publications. She grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario.

About Kymberly Dakin

Kymberly Dakin is a professional actress with over twenty years’ experience and has been a featured performer both on Broadway and in national tours. Kym has also played roles on The Guiding Light, One Life to Live, and All My Children, and has appeared on PAX-TV’s It’s a Miracle and on PBS’ Math Monsters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Manny on September 19, 2014

Not, who has read more Alice Munro that I have, wants to know why she doesn't write novels. Her uncharitable hypothesis is that Munro is too lazy to do the necessary work; she'd rather just scribble down each idea in short story form and then move on to the next one. Other people criticize her for b......more

Goodreads review by Katie on July 03, 2020

Another superb collection of stories by Alice Munro. The stories in this collection are longer and often make giant leaps forward in time so we get a sense of the entire life of her characters. She also uses the same character in three stories. As usual, her main theme is the lives of women who can'......more

Goodreads review by brian on January 08, 2010

in 1997, the reigning king of redonda, a tiny island & micronation in the bahamas, was so moved by superstar spanish writer javier marias's novel todas las almas that he abdicated the throne and handed it to marias. weird shit. so marias confers the title of 'duke' and 'duchess' to certain people, a......more

Goodreads review by PattyMacDotComma on February 01, 2021

3.5★ “In the brief note she left, she had used the word “authentic.” I have always felt the need of a more authentic kind of life. I know I cannot expect you to understand this.” That was Carla's note to her parents when she ran away with Clark, a no-good drifter, as her stepfather called him. She say......more

Quotes

“Dakin…works successfully in a narrow band of vocals and tones, grasping that these are stories of voice and of distance.” AudioFile

“Alice Munro has a strong claim to being the best fiction writer now working in North America…Runaway is a marvel.” New York Times Book Review

“Runaway may very well be the synthesizing work of one of literature’s keenest investigators into the human soul.” USA Today

“The great Alice Munro proves again why short-story writers bow down to her.” Vanity Fair

“Each of the stories in Runaway contains enough lived life to fill a typical novel…Her women are heroic. They endure in the mind of the reader.” Boston Globe

“A beautiful new work.” Los Angeles Times

“Munro’s new story collection will delight fans and convert those who have never before read her work.” Library Journal

“Munro’s stories are…global, bighearted, and warm…One never knows quite where a Munro story will end, only that it will leave an incandescent trail of psychological insight.” Publishers Weekly

“Retrospect and resolution, neither fully comprehended nor ultimately satisfying: such are the territories the masterful Munro explores in her tenth collection…In a word: magnificent.” Kirkus Reviews

Awards

  • Audie Award
  • Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
  • Scotiabank Giller Prize
  • Governor General Literary Award
  • New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the Year
  • Time Magazine Top 10 Book
  • New York Public Library Staff Pick
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