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Runaway
Alice Munro
(Vintage, 2004)

ALICE MUNRO celebrates the rhythms of small-town life and the music of the everyday in her latest collection of stories, Runaway (2004), winner of the 2004 Giller Prize for Fiction and the 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, Caribbean and Canada Region. When its comes to the vagaries of love and its discontents, nobody does it better than Munro, possibly one of the best short-story writers in the world.

Bibliography
MUNRO Alice [1931-] Short-story writer. Born Alice Anne Laidlaw in Wingham, Ontario, Canada. STORIES Runaway (2004: winner of the 2004 Giller Prize for Fiction and the 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, Caribbean and Canada Region; shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General's Award for Fiction); Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001: winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, Caribbean & Canada); The Love of a Good Woman (1998: winner of the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the 1998 Giller Prize for Fiction; co-winner of the 1998 Trillium Book Award for Fiction); Selected Stories (1996); Open Secrets (1994: winner of the 1995 W.H. Smith Literary Award); Friend of My Youth (1990: winner of the 1990 Trillium Book Award for Fiction and the Canada Council Molson Prize); The Progress of Love (1986: winner of the 1986 Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Marian Engel Prize); The Moons of Jupiter (1982); The Beggar Maid (published in Canada as Who Do You Think You Are? (1978: winner of the 1978 Governor General's Award for Fiction; shortlisted for the 1980 Booker Prize for Fiction); Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974); Lives of Girls and Women (1971); Dance of the Happy Shades (1968: winner of the 1968 Governor General's Award for Fiction)

Recommended
Stories: Runaway (2004); Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001); Open Secrets (1994); Lives of Girls and Women (1971)