Runaway (2004) (edit title/settings)

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• Juliet: Add a description of this character.
• Lauren
• Nancy
• Penelope
• Carla: Clark's wife. Boards horses and teaches riding lessons.
• Tessa
• Eileen
• Harry
• Delphine
• Sara
• Clark
• Eric
• Irene
• Sylvia
• Sam
• Grace
• Christa
• Robin
• Wilf
• Maury
• Mrs. Travers
• Neil
• Joanne
• Heather
• Gretchen
• Mavis
• Mrs. Jamieson
• Ginny
• Juno
• Dana
• Willard
• Don
• Ruth
• Lizzie
• Mother Shipton
• Mr. Palagian
• Juanita
• Leon
• Bailey
• Corky
• Gary
• Mrs. Box
• Doc
• Alexander
• Tucker

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• “Life is always so full. Getting and spending we lay waste our powers. Why do we let ourselves be so busy and miss doing things we should have, or would have, liked to do?”

  Nancy

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• Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang on to it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.

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• So this is grief. She feels as if a sack of cement has been poured into her and quickly hardened. She can barely move. Getting onto the bus, getting off the bus, walking half a block to her building (why is she living here?), is like climbing a cliff. And now she must hide this from Penelope.

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• Be available, be friendly (especially if you are not popular )— that was what you learned in a small town and also in a girls’ dormitory. Be accommodating to anybody who wants to suck you dry, even if they know nothing about who you are.

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• Juliet knew that, to many people, she might seem to be odd and solitary—and so, in a way, she was. But she had also had the experience, for much of her life, of feeling surrounded by people who wanted to drain away her attention and her time and her soul. And usually, she let them.

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• rearranging his impressions of his Grace so that he could stay wholeheartedly in love with her.

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• Because women always have got something, haven’t they, to keep them going? That men haven’t got.”

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• Odd choices were simply easier for men, most of whom would find women glad to marry them. Not so the other way around.

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• She keeps on hoping for a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better hope for undeserved blessings, spontaneous remissions, things of that sort.

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• The thing about life, Harry had told Lauren, was to live in the world with interest. To keep your eyes open and see the possibilities—see the humanity—in everybody you met. To be aware. If he had anything at all to teach her it was that. Be aware.

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• maenadism. The rituals took place at night, in the middle of winter, Dodds said. The women

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Vancouver
• Toronto
• Montenegro
• Greece
• Stratford
• Whale Bay
• Michigan
• Ottawa

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Alice Munro (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• Giller Prize (2004)
• Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book (2005: Caribbean and Canada)

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• Dewey: 813.54

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( M ) › Munro, Alice
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Short Stories
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary