Runaway

Table of Contents Title Page Dedication Praise RUNAWAY CHANCE SOON SILENCE PASSION TRESPASSES TRICKS I II POWERS GIVE DANTE A REST GIRL IN A MIDDY A HOLE IN THE HEAD A SQUARE, A CIRCLE, A STAR FLIES ON THE WINDOWSILL About the Author ALSO BY ALICE MUNRO Copyright Page In memory of my friends, Mary Carey Jean Livermore Melda Buchanan Acclaim for Alice Munro’s RUNAWAY “Munro is routinely called one of the finest living writers. You can turn to any of the eight stories in Runaway and see why.” —Time “No one working today can write more convincingly about ‘the progress of love’ than Alice Munro. . . . She stands as one of the living colossi of the modern short story, and her Chekhovian realism, her keen psychological insight, her instinctive feel for the emotional arithmetic of domestic life have indelibly stamped contemporary writing.” —The New York Times “Perfect. . . . Feels like a compressed collection of novels, so rich and deep and complete are the lives Munro evokes in these pages.” — Chicago Tribune “A sensitive and deeply insightful writer, Munro renders hauntingly realistic characters with an unf......