""Runaway" is the first story in this stunning collection, sure to
be a runaway success. All of the eight stories here are new,
published in book form for the first time. Two of the eight have
never appeared anywhere, so this will be a special feast for the
millions of Munro fans around the world.
Miraculously, these stories seem to have been written by a young
writer at the peak of her powers. Alice Munro's central characters
range from 14-year-old Lauren in "Trespass," through the young
couple in "Runaway," whose helpful older neighbour intervenes to
help the wife escape, all the way to a 70-year-old woman meeting a
friend of her youth on a Vancouver street and sitting with him to
recall their tangled lives fifty years earlier, through a web of
cheerful lies.
Three of the stories, "Chance," "Soon," and "Silence," are linked,
showing us how the young teacher Juliet meets her fisherman lover
on a train (and, by terrible chance, visits his B.C. home on the
day after his wife's funeral); how, years later, she brings baby
Penelope back east to show her parents and learns sad secrets about
their marriage; and how, twenty years on, she visits the estranged
Penelope in her cult-like B.C. community. The result is more
powerful than most novels, a quality in Alice Munro's stories that
has been noted by many reviewers.
The final story, "Powers," spans 50 years and runs from Goderich to
Vancouver and involves a cast of four characters, each of whom
steps forward to dominate the scene, not least Tessa, the plain
girl whose psychic powers take her on the vaudeville circuit. But
it is Alice Munro's own powers that dominate this collection and
that will amaze reviewers and readers. Howcan she keep getting
better? How can any one person know so much about the heads and
hearts of so many different people? And how can she weave them
together in stories that delight academics and ordinary readers
alike, making each new Alice Munro book a runaway bestseller?
"From the Hardcover edition.
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