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The incomparable Alice Munro's bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about women of all ages and circumstances - and about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises. The runaway of the title story is a young woman who is incapable of leaving her husband. In "Passion," a country girl emerging into the larger world via a job in a resort hotel discovers, in a single moment of insight, the limits and lies of passion. Three stories concern a woman named Juliet - in the first, she escapes from teaching at a girls' school into a wild love affair; in the second, she returns with her child to the home of her parents, whose marriage she finally begins to examine; and in the last, her vanished child turns up caught in the grip of a religious cult. In these and other stories, Alice Munro's understanding of the people about whom she writes makes their lives as real as our own.… (más)
Unfortunately, her latest collection of stories, ''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. Instead of assuming the organic, musical form of real life, they feel like self-conscious, overworked tales, relying on awkwardly withheld secrets and O'Henryesque twists to create narrative suspense.
But suspense and purity, which are a gift to the reader, present problems for the reviewer. Basically, ''Runaway'' is so good that I don't want to talk about it here. Quotation can't do the book justice, and neither can synopsis. The way to do it justice is to read it.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
In memory of my friends,
Mary Carey Jean Livermore Melda Buchanan
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Carla heard the car coming before it topped the little rise in the road that around here they called a hill.
Citas
Últimas palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
But deep in that moment some instability is waiting, that Nancy is determined to ignore. No use. She is aware already of being removed, drawn out of those two people and back into herself. It seems as if some calm and decisive person--could it be Wilf?--has taken on the task of leading her out of that room with its wire hangers and its flowered curtains. Gently, inexorably leading her away from what begins to crumble behind her, to crumble and darken tenderly into something like soot and soft ash.
The incomparable Alice Munro's bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about women of all ages and circumstances - and about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises. The runaway of the title story is a young woman who is incapable of leaving her husband. In "Passion," a country girl emerging into the larger world via a job in a resort hotel discovers, in a single moment of insight, the limits and lies of passion. Three stories concern a woman named Juliet - in the first, she escapes from teaching at a girls' school into a wild love affair; in the second, she returns with her child to the home of her parents, whose marriage she finally begins to examine; and in the last, her vanished child turns up caught in the grip of a religious cult. In these and other stories, Alice Munro's understanding of the people about whom she writes makes their lives as real as our own.
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Este es un libro de relatos sobre mujeres de edades y condiciones muy distintas: una joven que, aunque cree desearlo es incapaz de dejar a su marido; una campesina que descubre en un momento de lucidez, los límites y las falacias de la pasión; otra mujer, personaje de tres cuentos, que abandona en uno de ellos su trabajo de profesora en una escuela de niñas para entregarse a un amor
frenético y apasionado, vuelve más tarde, en otro relato, con una criatura a casa de los padres, donde reconsidera su vida y su matrimonio y, al final, en el último, cree que su hija desaparecida ha caído en las garras de una secta religiosa.Sus cuentos hablan de dones sobrenaturales, traiciones y sorpresas del amor entre hombres y mujeres, amigos, padres e hijos.
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