Runaway: Stories Audiobook

Publisher Description

The incomparable Alice Munros bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about women of all ages and circumstancesand 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 Julietin 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 Munros understanding of the people about whom she writes makes their lives as real as our own. Download and start listening now!

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Alice Munro has a strong claim to being the best fiction writer now working in North AmericaRunaway is a marvel. – New York Times Book Review Runaway may very well be the synthesizing work of one of literatures 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 novelHer women are heroic. They endure in the mind of the reader. – Boston Globe A beautiful new work. – Los Angeles Times Munros new story collection will delight fans and convert those who have never before read her work. – Library Journal Munros stories areglobal, bighearted, and warmOne 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 collectionIn a word: magnificent. – Kirkus Reviews Dakinworks successfully in a narrow band of vocals and tones, grasping that these are stories of voice and of distance, in which motive and outcome often remain mysterious and in which evenness of delivery is part of the drama of the telling. – AudioFile