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Runaway. The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite short story 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 writing. Runaway is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances.
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 working at a resort hotel emerges into the larger world and discovers in a single moment of stunning insight the limits and lies of that mysterious emotion, passion.
26 de ago. de 2020 · 335 pages ; 22 cm. "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.
The Last Runaway is a historical fiction novel written by Tracy Chevalier, best known for her critically acclaimed novel Girl with a Pearl Earring. Published in 2013, this mesmerizing book takes readers on a journey to 1850s Ohio, where they experience the trials and triumphs of Honor Bright, a young Quaker woman from England.
Runaway does not represent Ms. Munro's artistry at its height. Three overlapping stories (‘Chance,’ ‘Soon’ and ‘Silence’) provide an affecting portrait of a woman named Juliet and the harrowing trajectory of her life, but most of the entries in this volume are more stilted affairs.
Books. Runaway. Wendelin Van Draanen. Random House Children's Books, 2006 - Juvenile Fiction - 250 pages. "It's a cold, hard, cruel fact that my mother loved heroin more than she loved me." Holly is in her fifth foster home in two years and she's had enough. She's run away before and always been caught quickly.
12 de sept. de 2006 · Reading/L.A. Book Review 8 28 January 2011 Runaway: Follow The Yellow Brick Road “It’s never too late- in fiction or in life- to revise.” This quote from Nancy Thayer describes this book. In Runaway, by Wendelin Van Draanen, Holley Janquel is a runaway. A minor who has left the care of an adult.
