Alice Munro Runaway

Title: Runaway Author: Alice Munro Format: Paperback Language: English Pages: 352 Publisher: , 0 ISBN: 0143050710 Format: PDF / Kindle / ePub Size: 8.4 MB Download: allowed

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The incomparable Alice Munro's bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises. 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 neighbours. It is her miraculous gift to make these stories as real and unforgettable as our own.

Insightful reviews

Dawn: "Runaway" I didn't like the title story very much, in fact I still don't get the point of the bloody goat in the story. I do not do well with symbolism in books though, it frustrates me to have to infer what something or someone means rather than just being able to take it at face value.

"Chance" was much better. Munro really shows her understanding of personality and thought in this one. The odd things that run through her mind in situations of stress and the emotions that the character feels are so perfect in this story, it really is Munro's forte.

"Chance" "Soon" "Silence" Were all stories about the same woman and they were spectacular.

It is quite the talent that Munro has of making you feel for a character that you really have absolutely nothing in common with.

I guess this would be her genius, in making the humanity of us all so relatable.

"Passion" This was my favorite story of the collection. It did not end up like I was expecting it to. Which by now I should have learned is typical of this author.

"Trespass" This one rather came across like a mystery and then you were left wondering if any of it was true.

"Tricks" I really enjoy these two part stories where you find out the start and the end but not a whole lot of the middle. It seems unusual to write a story that way but this one was very, very good.

"Powers" I find it strange but I did not like either the first or the last stories in this book very much. This one is in 5 parts and I just didn't find it appealing.

Glenn Sumi: One of Munro's best books, Runaway is also one of her most thematically consistent collections. The idea of "running away" or "escape" permeates each tale. And what to make of the fact that the book consists of clipped, one-word titles? Intriguing.

I love the linked sequence of three narratives ("Chance," "Soon," and "Silence"), and if you read carefully you'll see each of those words is repeated significantly in other stories, especially "chance." (Think of the chain of events in "Tricks," the sudden swerve in the plot in "Passion," another word that resonates throughout the book.) There are echoes of previous Munro stories here: the two sisters from "Tricks" and "Powers" recall those in "The Peace Of Utrecht" and "Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You"; Juliet's journalism career recalls Rose's career in Who Do You Think You Are/The Beggar Maid; there's a spooky feel in the title story that reminds me a bit of "Save The Reaper"; the hapless husbands or husbands-to-be in "Passion" and "Powers" recall previous ones like Patrick Blatchford.

Of course Munro once again sees everything about her characters and compresses entire lives into a couple dozen pages. The scope of the final story, "Powers," is astonishing, as is the protagonist's hard-to-read motivations.

I'll definitely revisit these stories later, especially "Passion," one of her best, and "Runaway," one of her most mysterious.

If there were half stars I'd give this 4 1/2. But I'm rounding up, because, well, she's one of the best writers in the world.

** Here's my review of 2009's Too Much Happiness: http://www.nowtoronto.com/daily/story...

arcobaleno: Diario dell’anima 24 giugno 2012: L’ho appena iniziato, ma, anche questa volta non posso aspettare… È incredibile quanto la Munro riesca a comunicare con un linguaggio semplice e attraverso situazioni del tutto comuni. Sorprende la sua capacità di leggere al di là delle cose e di presentare l’animo femminile, di scavarlo, svuotarlo… Insomma, già il primo racconto In fuga non mi ha lasciato indifferente, confermando che questa scrittrice si presenta in sordina e si fa apprezzare un po’ alla volta; ma poi fa esplodere una sinfonia di emozioni… 5 luglio 2009: A fine lettura non saprei dire quali racconti mi abbiano colpito di più: sì, il primo In fuga, perché inaspettato, letto proprio durante una mia "fuga" in treno; ma tutti per qualcosa. Per una particolare situazione, un’atmosfera, un sentimento, un’emozione da ‘déjà vu’ o solo un desiderio, un sogno nascosto o pensieri inespressi.

Hopper, Compartment C, Car 193 (1938) Nelle parole stesse della Munro(*) la chiave del suo stile di scrittura: una scrittura intima, non costruita, a specchio del suo essere: libero da maschere, opportunismi o false apparenze. Non impreziosisce le immagini con parole ricercate e accattivanti, non costruisce frasi ad effetto, ma entra nelle immagini. Non osserva, non descrive, ma vive da dentro ciò che esprime, con il cuore della semplicità, mescolando il resoconto dell’oggi al ricordo del passato con la facilità e la spontaneità del pensiero non costretto da schemi.

Così che un lettore sensibile si sente partecipe di un mondo anche proprio e vi si immerge,

come attraverso le pagine di un diario, pur se scritte in terza persona.

Si sente anche in questa raccolta, come nota ScaP nel suo commento a Nemico, amico, amante , “la formazione classica della Munro, evidente da alcuni riferimenti”, ma mai saccenti o fastidiosi, dunque ancor più apprezzabili.

Grazie a Ginny e a ScaP per avermi fatto scoprire Alice Munro con i loro commenti, che consiglio di andare a leggere.

_______ (*) "Fatalità" (pag.60):

Ma aveva un gran bisogno di raccontare qualcosa a qualcuno. Estrasse il taccuino e, su uno dei fogli a righe, prese a scrivere una lettera ai suoi.

[…] Juliet, suo padre e sua madre si erano sempre impegnati a riferire in casa gli aneddoti interessanti. Ciò comportava un raffinato aggiustamento non solo dei fatti, ma anche della propria posizione nel mondo. O comunque cosi Juliet aveva pensato, finché il suo mondo era stato la scuola. Aveva trasformato se stessa in un'osservatrice in qualche misura superiore, invulnerabile. Ora poi che era sempre lontana da casa, quella posizione le era divenuta abituale, pressoché doverosa.

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Matt: If Alice Munro equipped a bridge out of popsicle sticks to move the Colorado River at any point, i would not hesitate to step on it. no matter what there's to claim approximately her genius, and there is a lot, we need to say, of the entire tools she instructions as a writer, *structure* is the single with which she is so much masterful. this is often how she's a realist--not simply because the entire humans in her tales put on pants (when appropriate) and none have nipples that remove darkness from like flashlights on touch, yet simply because that means and importance and trajectory assemble as though all alone powers, during the accumulation of items and the order within which they arrive. The tales assemble together.

they're plotted within the such a lot Aristotelian way, within which plot is "the association of incidents." Munro says that if, in drafting, "I think an element that is improper [...] I be aware of the tale because it have been relatively occurring somewhere, not only in my head, and in its personal way, no longer mine."I've additionally learn Munro asserting that she conceives of a quick story--and she's speaking right here approximately her adventure as a reader--"not as though it have been a road, taking me somewhere, with perspectives and neat diversions alongside the best way [...]. it really is extra like a house. every body is familiar with what a home does, the way it encloses house and makes connections among one enclosed house and one other and offers what's outdoors in a brand new way."That's what makes those tales so pleasurable--they confide in the reader, they show rooms and nooks and corners and turns and staircases as you're making your means inside. they're by no means drawn to forcing you or controlling you (though after all they are). They shock you're keen on lifestyles does, in messy, hilarious, uncanny ways. How one piece matches to the former is a part of the meaning. the shape conveys emotional content. (Isn't it so fascinating she does not write novels? It indicates to me that that the magic of her tales calls for a restricted span, an coming near near end; an

Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) excessive amount of area and so they turn into jumbled, unclear, diffuse.)While Runaway is not nearly as good as an excessive amount of Happiness , it truly is nonetheless Munro.

Thing Two: Alice Munro - you cannot simply learn her once. you have to learn her again, and again, and again. Her tales written approximately men and women who reside lives such as you and that i - quietly going approximately their days, thinking about in the event that they ignored out on that fab titanic love, or that groovy substantial chance; arguing with their children, or their parents, or both; pretending that lifestyles is grand, pretending that existence is not pointless.She writes lush, attractive stories that are lengthy and stress-free to read. i am examining her again, soon.

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