#53
Title: Runaway
Author: Alice Munro
Read by: Kymberly Dakin
Read by: Kymberly Dakin
Genre: Short
Stories
Category: Fiction
Rating: B
Published: 2004
Date Read: 8/11/16
– 8/22/16
From the
back cover – “The stories in this collection are about women of all ages and circumstances. The runaway of the title story is a young
woman who is incapable of leaving her husband.
In another, 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 the same woman – 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 others Alice Munro’s
understanding of the people about whom she writes makes their lives as real as
our own.”
I enjoyed
Munro’s writing and am wondering why I haven’t read anything by her until now. Now I will look for her more often in my
travels through the local libraries.
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