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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, 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.

Runaway 3
Chance 48
Soon 87
Silence 126
Passion 159
Trespasses 197
Tricks 236
Powers 270

EXCERPT


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 she turned her head there was something like a bright flash?of inquiry, of hopefulness?that made Carla shrink back.

So.

Maybe Clark didn’t know yet. If he was sitting at the computer he would have his back to the window and the road.

But Mrs. Jamieson might have to make another trip. Driv- ing home from the airport, she might not have stopped for groceries?not until she’d been home and figured out what she needed. Clark might see her then. And after dark, the lights of her house would show. But this was July, and it didn’t get dark till late. She might be so tired that she wouldn’t bother with the lights, she might go to bed early.

On the other hand, she might telephone. Any time now......

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013

The incomparable Alice Munro's bestselling and rapturously acclaimed 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.