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Runaway
- Stories
- Narrated by: Kymberly Dakin
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Anthologies & Short Stories
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Publisher's Summary
Three stories concern the same woman - 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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- Elizabeth Theis
- 2018-09-18
Great stories, one quibble on good narration
Hard to pick a favourite volume of Munro stories but this one is up there. I wish Audible.ca would offer many more. I have all her collections in hard copy and also enjoy hearing them read. All these are, as usual, excellent. Especially good to have a trilogy of them in this collection. Several show Munro’s excellent handling of time over one life. Narration is fine, very clear, good with the different voices, maybe a little warm and dramatic in spots for Munro’s sensibility. One quibble: If Audible is going to use American narrators, I wish they would check on pronunciation of Canadian place names; it just grates a little when they’re mispronounced. #Audible1.
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- RS
- 2020-05-12
loved it!
Stories were great and narrator did a good job. Overall I really enjoyed the book.
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- Cristina Miller
- 2020-03-23
Nostalgic and Quaint
I picked up this read because I enjoyed some of her works in high school and was curious if I would still. The stories were good and I enjoyed the vignette style, particularly "tricks" and "powers." The narrator was good, maybe a bit mundane but chalk it up to Munro's prose. The part I struggled with was that Audible's chapter delineation didn't line up with the short stories, and it wasn't clear where each story started and ended. The narrator did state the story name before she started, but it was run in with the story before and easy to miss.
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- linda vanderlee
- 2020-05-24
Excellent
I love the carefully crafted characters and lives that this author consistently weaves into such captivating reads. Sometimes refecting a close up tidbit of myself, sometimes a totally different but believable world. I especially appreciate not bring able to guess or predict what will happen in any of them. I'm in awe of her storytelling. The reader did a perfect job telling these as well, capturing the nuance of voice and mood the whole way through. A minor downside was the chapter beginning and ending misalignment and lack of titles in this download.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2018-05-26
Boring
I couldn't finish. The stories were not overly interesting and I kept waiting for them to tie together but finally gave up. The narration wasn't great either.
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- Sarah Strehler
- 2020-12-08
Not Up to Usual Standards
I love Alice Munroe but this collection missed the mark for me. It’s possible that the narration was part of the issue - it seemed so disconnected. I had to rewind multiple times to figure out if I had missed something, because the chapters, breaks and story don’t seem to match up. The first story was my favourite but I lost interest by 2/3 through and couldn’t finish the book. Shame!
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- C. Neale
- 2020-11-19
great sort stories by a master story teller
It is a real pleasure to listen to a book by an accomplished writer, ahhhhhh...
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- Elizabeth W.
- 2020-11-10
Strange
Well, this my first time reading any of the works by Alice Monroe. I don’t understand what the draw is. I feel the book is a complete smattering of her own experiences with imagination mixed-in to complete the stories. Not the greatest book I’ve read. In fact if I’d had to sit in one spot to read the book myself and not be able to keep busy doing far more important things, like vacuuming and other housework, I’d have dropped this book within the first 15 minutes, having given the book a complete chance to mesmerize me. Boring, hum-drum, plain old everyday experiences that could be written by almost anyone. The reader did a wonderful job. She’s the reason I finished the book entirely.
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- B.N Toronto
- 2020-07-29
Hangers!
These stories are well written, and read, but I personally did not like that stories just end without any kind of closure. I certainly wasn't looking for happy ever after in these stories but its hard to have the story end after a significant event(s) have occurred. There is only a part/chapter pause before you are thrust into the next story. Overall, very good and captivating stories.
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- Mamareader
- 2020-07-16
not a good audible
reading is too fast and is totally not the right tone for what I expect from this author.
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- David
- 2010-04-02
Poor Audio Quality
Unfortunately the audio quality on this recording varies. Sometimes it's fine but other times it's poor. I found it hard to hear clearly and consistently in a car. If you listen to audiobooks while driving, this probably isn't the best choice.
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- Vered
- 2008-12-08
Moving
"Runaway" is a collection of short stories written by Alice Monroe- sharing a common theme.
Some of the stories in this collection are better than others, some are more matriculant and ripe than others, but i found it difficult to stay indifferent to Monroe's ability to authentically portray human weakness.
She displayes (with talent) feminine circumstances which were typical to in the mid 20th century but are still relevant today.
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- P. Carson
- 2009-05-02
Several short novels and a few short stories
I liked the author's novel, The View from Castle Rock, and I was very pleasantly surprised by this new collection of stories. Several of the stories are really short novels, like Ian McEwan's Atonement, and are well developed without filler. Ms. Munro shows a great talent for characterization in these stories and a great understanding of those characters, both female and male. A great treat!
18 people found this helpful
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- Kelli
- 2017-02-15
Excellent book, bad audio formatting
Everything about this book was truly excellent except for he way the audio formatted. The short stories began and end within the same audio chapters, not allowing the listener to pause appropriately between stories. It created confusion about when one story ended and another began. I became increasingly frustrated listening as this happened over and over.
7 people found this helpful
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- Kim
- 2010-04-04
Absorbing, Compelling, Must Read
This collection of short stories, more like short novels, is fascinating and gripping. I really could not stop listening. The stories are simply told, elegantly plotted, and have surprising twists that hold your attention.
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- Thomas Viehe
- 2016-09-30
Great Writing, Poor Audiobook
Alice Munro's short stories are among the best compositions in the English language. They are thoughtful, simple, and reflect the yearning of her characters on a way that doesn't quite leave you right away. So what's the problem? The audiobook. And not the narrator. The chapter divisions of the audiobook are not properly divided into the stories, so it is difficult to navigate so you can't go back and re-listen to a story you loved in a simple way. In addition, the audiobook does not have a good way of indicating that a new story has begun. It announced the title, but I found that I had to reference the story list on Amazon to figure out if a new story had begun or if this was just the continuation of the current story. Otherwise, I greatly enjoyed the writing and the narrator's performance was good.
6 people found this helpful
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- Susan Brady, LCSW
- 2010-10-11
Perfect. Munro is a genius.
This is a beautiful book. Munro is an incredible observer of people. Kind, honest and with a subtle sense of humor. The reader was excellent and allowed the stories themselves to take first place.
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- MadameMilkbone
- 2018-12-17
Chapter breaks are nonexistent
Hard and a waste of time to pick up again with seemingly random chapter breaks in hour plus chunks that stop and start in the middle of stories. Frustrating.
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- Cariola
- 2014-07-08
Just Not an Alice Munro Fan
I know that I am part of a very small minority, but I am not an Alice Munro fan. Her stories aren't bad, but to me, they are just incredibly boring. I will give her credit for writing realistic contemporary dialogue, and I guess it's a talent to be able to write a long story about ordinary people in fairly ordinary situations. And there are brief moments of insight into human nature. But that's about all I have to say. I've now read several of her collections, and I've felt the same way about each. It's never a good sign when you are about halfway through a story and just want it to end . . . For the last 100 pages, I kept thinking about what I will read next. (Hint: It won't be by Alice Munro.) The reader is OK; she has that quiet monotone that is typical of readers of "important" literature that supposedly speaks for itself--the Poetry Reading Voice.
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- Marcia
- 2008-11-13
Sadly an Unfortunate Read...
I honestly think it may have been the narrator who destroyed this read for me. Even though she has a pleasant voice, a pleasant voice does not a narrator make! The story drolled on and on and on and got absolutely nowhere! I tried to get into it several times and finally realized, I had just wasted my money. The writing is superficial, predictable and just plain boring. Maybe it would have been better if a different narrator had verbalized one of the three stories, anything to break up the monotony. I had hoped after the first story, the second might be better and it was actually worse. Again though, I think it was the narrator. I was so annoyed with her tone that did not change, I would forward to another audible book until I felt I could go back and try again. I Hope the next book will be better and/or a more talented narrator is used.
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