A review by creekhiker
Runaway by Alice Munro

5.0

Reread for teaching an undergraduate/graduate Craft of Fiction class. Class was in total agreement that her plot and sentences are beautiful, but her characters were all rather the same and rather depressing. Which, I will concur, they are in this collection - every story is about a woman trapped in her life. But she writes it so very well!
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Reread for my thesis (October 2008). Alice Munro truly is a master of short stories. Her craft is impeccable, and her ability to show the drama in ordinary lives is amazing.