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Runaway [electronic resource] : stories / Alice Munro.

by Munro, Alice, 1931-

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New York : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, [2007]

Women -- Fiction.

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http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=AB0F5FBD-CD7B-45A7-B3FD-C911B75A0811 This title is available online; click here to access

9780307427540 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)

0307427544 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)

1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.

Runaway -- Chance -- Soon -- Silence -- Passion -- Trespasses -- Tricks -- Powers.

Alice Munro's central characters range from 14-year-old Lauren in "Trespass," through the young couple in "Runaway," whose helpful older neighbour intervenes to help the wife escape, all the way to a 70-year-old woman meeting a friend of her youth on a Vancouver street and sitting with him to recall their tangled lives fifty years earlier, through a web of cheerful lies. Three of the stories, "Chance," "Soon," and "Silence," are linked, showing us how the young teacher Juliet meets her fisherman lover on a train (and, by terrible chance, visits his B.C. home on the day after his wife's funeral); how, years later, she brings baby Penelope back east to show her parents and learns sad secrets about their marriage; and how, twenty years on, she visits the estranged Penelope in her cult-like B.C. community. The result is more powerful than most novels, a quality in Alice Munro's stories that has been noted by many reviewers. The final story, "Powers," spans 50 years and runs from Goderich to Vancouver and involves a cast of four characters, each of whom steps forward to dominate the scene, not least Tessa, the plain girl whose psychic powers take her on the vaudeville circuit.

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