Runaway

Alice Munro has a strong claim to being the best fiction writer now working in North America. Runaway is a marvel. Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times Book Review

Runaway may very well be the synthesizing work of one of literature s keenest investigators into the human soul. USA Today

She outjoices Joyce and checkmates Chekhov. . . . Each of the stories in Runaway contains enough lived life to fill a typical novel. . . . Her women are heroic. . . . They endure in the mind of the reader. The Boston Globe

As with so many of Munro s stories, you read to have your premises altered and deepened. Could anything be better? . . . A beautiful new work. Los Angeles Times

The great Alice Munro proves again why short-story writers bow down toher. Vanity Fair

Runaway is a big dish of Beluga caviar, sailing in on a sparkling bed of ice, with a mother-of-pearl spoon. You remember: This is why you eat, read, make love, whatever to be left silly with admiration and delight. The Washington Post