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Runaway is a book of short stories by Alice Munro. First published in 2004 by McClelland and Stewart, it was awarded that year's Giller Prize and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. [1]
- Multiple Runaways
- Parallels Between Goat and Girl
- Carla’s Responsibility
- Clark's Pet Entirely
Runaway people, animals, and emotions abound in the story. The wife, Carla, is twice a runaway. When she was 18 and college-bound, she ran off to marry her husband, Clark, against her parents' wishes and has been estranged from them since. And now, getting on a bus to Toronto, she runs away a second time—this time from Clark. Carla's beloved white ...
Munro describes the goat's behavior in ways that mirror Carla's relationship with Clark. She writes: When Carla first left home, she behaved much in the starry-eyed manner of the goat. She was filled with "giddy delight" in her pursuit of a "more authentic kind of life" with Clark. She was impressed by his good looks, his colorful employment histor...
Though Clark is clearly presented as a murderous, stultifying force, the story also places some of the responsibility for Carla's situation on Carla herself. Consider the way Flora allows Clark to pet her, even though he may have been responsible for her original disappearance and is probably about to kill her. When Sylvia tries to pet her, Flora p...
On first reading, you might expect that just as the goat shifted alliances from Clark to Carla, Carla, too, might have changed alliances, believing more in herself and less in Clark. It's certainly what Sylvia Jamieson believes. And it's what common sense would dictate, given the way Clark treats Carla. But Carla defines herself entirely in terms o...
Julieta (Spanish pronunciation: [xuˈljeta]), originally titled Silencio, is a 2016 Spanish melodrama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. It is based on "Chance", "Silence", and "Soon", 3 short stories by Alice Munro from her 2004 collection Runaway.
Jan 1, 2004 · 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 ...
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Aug 3, 2003 · Runaway. By Alice Munro. August 3, 2003. 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....
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Jul 7, 2020 · “Runaway” by Alice Munro. from Runaway. Trevor. What a terrifying story “Runaway” is. It’s a story that shows us the live wires all over the room from the start, and there are more than a few passages that are written as if Munro were going for a classic thriller.
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Nov 14, 2004 · RUNAWAY By Alice Munro. 335 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $25. Alice Munro has a strong claim to being the best fiction writer now working in North America, but outside of Canada, where her books...
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