Runawasy

Zusatztext “Alice Munro has a strong claim to being the best fiction writer now working in North America. Runaway is a marvel.” –Jonathan Franzen! The New York Times Book Review   “ Runaway may very well be the synthesizing work of one of literature’s keenest investigators into the human soul.” – USA Today   “She outjoices Joyce and checkmates Chekhov. . . . 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.” – The Boston Globe   “As with so many of Munro’s stories! you read to have your premises altered and deepened. Could anything be better? . . . A beautiful new work.” – Los Angeles Times   “The great Alice Munro proves again why short-story writers bow down to her.” – Vanity Fair   “ Runaway is a big dish of Beluga caviar! sailing in on a sparkling bed of ice! with a mother-of-pearl spoon. You remember: This is why you eat! read! make love! whatever–to be left silly with admiration and delight.” – The Washington Post Praise from fellow writers: “Her work felt revolutionary when I came to it! and it still does.” —Jhumpa Lahiri “She is one of the handful of writers! some living! most dead! whom I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion.” —Jonthan Franzen “The authority she brings to the page is just lovely.” —Elizabeth Strout “She’s the most savage writer I’ve ever read! also the most tender! the most honest! the most perceptive.” —Jeffery Eugenides “Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.”—Julian Barnes “She is a short-story writer who…reimagined what a story can do.” —Loorie Moore “There’s probably no one alive who’s better at the craft of the short story.” —Jim Shepard “A true master of the form.” —Salman Rushdie “A wonderful writer.” —Joyce Carol Oates  Informationen zum Autor Alice Munro Klappentext WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013This acclaimed, bestselling collection also contains the celebrated stories that inspired the Pedro Almodóvar film Julieta. Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named Juliet and the emotions that complicate the luster of her intimate relationships. In Munro's hands, the people she writes about-women of all ages and circumstances, and their friends, lovers, parents, and children-become as vivid as our own neighbors. It is her miraculous gift to make these stories as real and unforgettable as our own. Carla heard the car coming before it topped the little rise in the road that around here they called a hill. It’s her, she thought. Mrs. Jamieson—Sylvia—home from her holiday in Greece. From the barn door—but far enough inside that she could not readily be seen—she watched the road Mrs. Jamieson would have to drive by on, her place being half a mile farther along the road than Clark and Carla’s. If it was somebody getting ready to turn in at their gate it would be slowing down by now. But still Carla hoped. Let it not be her. It was. Mrs. Jamieson turned her head once, quickly—she had all she could do maneuvering her car through the ruts and puddles the rain had made in the gravel—but she didn’t lift a hand off the wheel to wave, she didn’t spot Carla. Carla got a glimpse of a tanned arm bare to the shoulder, hair bleached a lighter color than it had been before, more white now than silver-blond, and an expression that was determined and exasperated and amused at her own exasperation—just the way Mrs. Jamieson would look negotiating such a road. When...

List of contents

Runaway

Chance

Soon

Silence

Passion

Trespasses

Tricks

Report

Alice Munro has a strong claim to being the best fiction writer now working in North America. Runaway is a marvel. Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times Book Review

Runaway may very well be the synthesizing work of one of literature s keenest investigators into the human soul. USA Today

She outjoices Joyce and checkmates Chekhov. . . . 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. The Boston Globe

As with so many of Munro s stories, you read to have your premises altered and deepened. Could anything be better? . . . A beautiful new work. Los Angeles Times

The great Alice Munro proves again why short-story writers bow down toher. Vanity Fair

Runaway is a big dish of Beluga caviar, sailing in on a sparkling bed of ice, with a mother-of-pearl spoon. You remember: This is why you eat, read, make love, whatever to be left silly with admiration and delight. The Washington Post

Product details

• Authors: Alice Munro
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.11.2005
• EAN: 9781400077915
• ISBN: 978-1-4000-7791-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 205 mm x 20 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage International; Vintage International; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature