Runaway, Munro, Alice. Published by McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, 2004. Second printing. 8vo up to 9½” tall., 335pp. Beige boards with light green titles. Both volume and unclipped jacket are in fine, unmarked condition.
Runaway was awarded both the Giller Prize and Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Alice Munro is a Canadian short story writer whose work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. She is the recipient of several awards including the Nobel Prize for Literature (2013) as a “master of the contemporary short story”; 3 time winner of the Governor General’s Award; 2 time winner of the Giller Prize and, winner of The Man Booker Prize.
