Runaway by Munro, Alice

mass market paperback, 368 pages

English language

Published Nov. 11, 2006 by Vintage.

ISBN:
978-0-09-947225-4
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OCLC Number:
224149527

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This 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.

The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this dazzling new collection. here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance and empathy of Munro's …

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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.

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  • Women -- Fiction.