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Runaway : stories / Alice Munro.
"In Alice Munro's new collection, we find stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of this incomparable writer." The runaway of the title story is a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, 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 stunning insight the limits and lies of that mysterious emotion. Three stories are about a woman named Juliet - in the first, she escapes from teaching at a girls' school into a wild and irresistible love match; in the second she returns with her child to the home of her parents, whose life and marriage she finally begins to examine; and in the last, her child, caught, she mistakenly thinks, in the grip of a religious cult, vanishes into an unexplained and profound silence. In the final story, "Powers," a young woman with the ability to read the future sets off a chain of events that involves her husband-to-be and a friend in a lifelong pursuit of what such a gift really means, and who really has it."--Publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780143050711 (paperback)
- ISBN: 9780771065064 :
- ISBN: 0143050710 (paperback)
- ISBN: 077106506X :
- Physical Description: 335 page ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, c2004.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Douglas Gibson Book." |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Runaway -- Chance -- Soon -- Silence -- Passion -- Trespasses -- Tricks -- Powers. |
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| Subject: | Women > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Short stories, Canadian. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Hazelton Public Library | Fic (Text) | T 38800 | Adult Fiction - Main Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Hudson's Hope Public Library | FIC CLA MUN (Text) | BHH044715 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Kimberley Public Library | F MUN (Text) | KPL99269 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| McBride | Fic Mun (Text) | 35191000026878 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Pender Island Public Library | MUN (Text) | 31263000063955 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Piers Island Library | Giller 2004 Mun (Text)
Format: Trade paperback |
33129000002350 | Giller Prize | Not holdable | Available | - |
| Pouce Coupe Public Library | F MUN (Text) | 35333000129472 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Rossland Public Library | FIC MUN SS (Text) | BR33412 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Salmo Public Library | FIC MUN (Text) | SPL24166 | Adult Fiction (hardback or trade paperback) | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Salt Spring Island Public Library | FIC MUN (Text) | 33123009619835 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
