Author: Alice Munro
Translator: Myong-ju Kim
Publisher: Ttatteut-han-son
251 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
In Alice Munro's superb new collection, we find stories about women of all ages
and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of this
incomparable writer.
The runaway of the title story is a young woman who, though she thinks she wants
to, 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 stunning insight the limits and lies of that mysterious emotion. Three
stories are about a woman named Juliet - in the first, she escapes from teaching
at a girls' school into a wild and irresistible love match; in the second she
returns with her child to the home of her parents, whose life and marriage she
finally begins to examine; and in the last, her child, caught, she mistakenly
thinks, in the grip of a religious cult, vanishes into an unexplained and
profound silence. In the final story, "Powers," a young woman with the ability
to read the future sets off a chain of events that involves her husband-to-be
and a friend in a lifelong pursuit of what such a gift really means, and who
really has it.
Throughout this compelling collection, Alice Munro's understanding of the people
about whom she writes makes them as vivid as our own neighbors. Here are the
infinite betrayals and surprises of love - between men and women, between
friends, between parents and children - that are the stuff of all our lives. It
is Alice Munro's special gift to make these stories as vivid and real as our
own.
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