Runaway : stories
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 58 min.)) : digital.
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access - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [United States] : Blackstone Publishing, 2008.
- Distributor: Made available through hoopla
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Restrictions on Access Note: | Digital content provided by hoopla. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Kymberly Dakin. |
Summary, etc.: | 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. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Women Fiction |
Genre: | Short stories. |
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