Runaway

Alice Munro

eBook - 2007

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Eight “sparkling [and] beautifully drawn” (Entertainment Weekly) stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro “Each of the stories in Runaway contains enough lived life to fill a typical novel.”—The Boston Globe One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyWINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlantic Monthly, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, San Jose Mercury News, Kansas City StarThe 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... more