Runaway
Stories

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. A New York Times bestseller. One of the 2004 New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books for Fiction. Winner of the 2006 Audie Award. Winner of the 2005 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book: Canada and the Caribbean. Winner of the 2004 Scotiabank Giller Prize. A 2004 Governor General's Literary Award Finalist. A 2004 New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the Year. A 2004 Time Magazine Top 10 Book.