Runaway

Stories

Hardcover, 335 pages

English language

Published Nov. 11, 2005 by Chatto & Windus.

ISBN:
9780701177508
OCLC Number:
57664053

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The matchless 'Munro makes art of everyday in this dazzling new collection. At its centre are three stories connected into one marvellously rich. long narrative, about Juliet — who escapes from teaching at a girls' schM)l into a wild and passionate love match; then returns to the home of her parents. whose life and curious marriage she finally begins to examine; while in the third part of her story. her vanished child turns up caught in the grip of a religious cult. The whole picture emerges only when all the pieces of the jigsaw are finally in place.

Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances. their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance and empathy of Munro's writing. The runaway of the disturbing title story is Carla, a congenital 'bolter', who has fantasies that take on a frightening afterlife... Elsewhere, a stagestruck girl finds life is …

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De beaux récits intimes, remplis d'espoir, d'amour, de malheur et de souffrance

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8 nouvelles sur des femmes dont la vie a changé (ou pas) suite à diverses circonstances : fuite d'un mari brutal, rencontre imprévue... Certains personnages reviennent d'une nouvelle à l'autre à divers moments de leur vie. De beaux récits intimes, remplis d'espoir, d'amour, de malheur et de souffrance, racontés sans pathos, sans moralisation, juste avec le partage pudique d'intimité, dans un style dépouillé, sans fioriture, au plus près des personnages.

Subjects

  • Relationships
  • Fiction