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Runaway: Stories Audiobook
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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.
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"I read Runaway immediately after it got the Giller Prize. It was my first reading from Alice Munro, and I know it won't be the last. She writes with ease, the stories flow smooth, although fully emotionally charged. It was no surprise to learn that she won the Man Booker Prize in 2009 (in addition to many Canadian awards, including 3 GGs and two Gillers)."
— Nick (4 out of 5 stars)
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“Alice Munro has a strong claim to being the best fiction writer now working in North America…Runaway is a marvel.”
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“Runaway may very well be the synthesizing work of one of literature’s keenest investigators into the human soul.”
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“The great Alice Munro proves again why short-story writers bow down to her.”
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“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.”
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“A beautiful new work.”
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“Munro’s new story collection will delight fans and convert those who have never before read her work.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Dakin…works 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
Awards
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A New York Times bestseller
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Winner of the 2006 Audie Award
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Winner of the 2005 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book: Canada and the Caribbean
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Winner of the 2004 Scotiabank Giller Prize
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A 2004 Governor General’s Literary Award Finalist
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A 2004 New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the Year
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A 2004 Time Magazine Top 10 Book
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A New York Public Library Staff Pick of Favorite Books of the Last 125 Years
Runaway Listener Reviews
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" OK book - would not recommend...but wouldn't be the end of the world if you spent some time on it. Not that exciting. "
— Jennifer, 2/16/2014 -
" I thought about these stories for weeks after finishing the book! "
— MaryAdair, 2/15/2014 -
" Alice Munro has been able to get inside the life and mind of a narcissistic woman. How? Maybe it's her own life? "
— Chris, 2/8/2014 -
" Read this for a book club. Very hard to follow and understand. Very choppy. Most of the book club agreed. "
— Kim, 2/8/2014 -
" I haven't read anything else by Munro, but I'd like to. These short stories are simple and thoughtful, particularly the title work. Good summer reading. "
— Dana, 1/28/2014 -
" I just discovered her stories for the first time. Immediately went out and bought another collection of them. "
— Kyle, 1/25/2014 -
" Was just getting acquainted with Munro when I read this. I like the stories and, definitely would go with her through a whole book. "
— Robin, 1/9/2014 -
" Ordinarily I'm not one for short stories, for whatever reason, but this came recommended to me. Very good, very human, immediately absorbing. Read the intro by her superfan Jonathan Franzen. "
— Damara, 12/23/2013 -
" I love short stories. This was the first collection of Munro's that I have read. I didn't enjoy the entire collection equally but I enjoyed them enough that I would read some of her other collections. "
— Jaelene, 12/12/2013 -
" Alice Munro is hands down the best writer of short stories! Loved this collection and Hateship, Friendship, Loveship, Courtsthip. "
— Madhuri, 11/23/2013 -
" My favorite collection from one of my favorite short story writers. Short stories that contain substance enough to be novels. Narrators that remind me of more wry, ironic and aware versions of Chekhovian heroes & heroines. "
— Tuan, 10/19/2013
About Alice Munro
Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published eleven collections of stories and two volumes of selected stories, as well as a novel. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England’s W. H. Smith Book Award, the United States’ National Book Critics Circle Award, the Edward MacDowell Medal in literature, and the Man Booker International Prize. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron.
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.