书名：Runaway 逃离

作者：Alice Munro
出版社名称：Vintage Books USA
出版时间：2006
语种：英文
ISBN：9780099472254
商品尺寸：12.7 x 2.5 x 19.6 cm
包装：平装
页数：368（以实物为准）

★诺贝尔文学奖得主艾丽丝·门罗代表作；
★加拿大文学大奖吉勒奖《纽约时报》年度图书，法国《读书》杂志年度外国小说；
★门罗被乔纳森·弗兰岑、辛西娅·奥齐克、A.S.拜厄特赞誉为“当代契诃夫”、“当代伟大的短篇小说大师”。

为了获得独立和完整的自我，我们逃离沉闷的家庭、僵化的感情，逃离熟悉的人群、令人窒息的生活……为此，我们付出代价，遭受混乱，造成伤害。

本书Runaway《逃离》悬念迭起，你永远都不知道下一个转折在哪里。门罗向你揭示那些怪异的机缘、微小的可能性，向你层层剥开环环相扣的事物，敲开生活的坚硬外壳，看到内里，看到人性的复杂。正如门罗本人所言：事物的复杂性，即“层层剥开的事物”，似乎本就是无止境的。没有什么是容易的，没有什么是简单的。

媒体评论：
她是当代短篇小说大师。每读门罗的小说，便知生命中未曾想到之事。——诺贝尔奖颁奖辞

自然的精准，从容的洗练。门罗是创造独特人物关系和氛围的天才。——《卫报》

 表面沉静得像握在手中的一杯茶，内里却是暗涌的风暴和深不可测的深渊。——《泰晤士报》

你记得：这也是为何你进食、阅读，诸如此类事情，还满怀崇拜和欣喜。——《华盛顿邮报》

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this dazzling new collection. At its centre are three stories connected into one marvellously rich narrative about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school and throws herself into a wild and passionate love match. Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance and empathy of Munro's writing. "Runaway" is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances. There is pain and desolation beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart, which makes these stories more powerful and compelling than anything she has written.

Review
"Munro is one of my all-time favourite writers. She seems to really see people, like a mind reader who knows what her characters are thinking before they do do, and tells their stories with simplicity and empathy."(Natasha Lunn Red)

"Runaway is so good I don't want to talk about it. Quotation can't do the book justice, and neither can synopsis. The way to do it justice is to read it. Read Munro! Read Munro!" 
(Jonathan Franzen New York Times Book Review)

"Millions of words have been spilt in attempts to tell us exactly what it means to be human. In Runaway, Munro performs that very miracle"(The Times)

"A beautiful, echoing collection, and a demonstration of perfected and unflinching form" 
(Ali Smith Scotsman)

"These stories are breathtaking - they leave you winded with their toughness and brilliance" (Helen Simpson Guardian)
Runaway《逃离》讲述爱的力量和无止境的背叛，讲述琐碎生活中的不安分、错过的机会，讲述一次又一次的逃离，以及人们为此付出的代价。门罗关注日常生活，善于捕捉人与人之间复杂而微妙的关系。不同年龄、不同境况中的人，在门罗朴实克制的文笔下生动鲜活，似可触摸。

每个人总会遇到什么事，什么人，让你觉得像肺里什么地方扎进去了一根致命的针，浅一些呼吸时可能不感到疼。可是每当需要深深吸进去一口气时，便能觉出那根针一直存在。
艾丽丝·门罗，加拿大著名女作家，当代短篇小说大师。1931年出生于加拿大安大略省，迄今出版了14部短篇小说集，将加拿大总督文学奖、吉勒文学奖、英联邦作家奖、全美书评人协会奖等收入囊中。2009年获第3届布克国际奖，2013年获诺贝尔文学奖，代表作有《逃离》、《亲爱的生活》等。

Alice Munro is the author of The Beggar Maid (shortlisted for the Booker Prize) a novel and several outstanding collections of stories, including Open Secrets (winner of the WHSmith Literary Award), and Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage. Her work appears regularly in The New Yorker and she is a winner of the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Prize in her native Canada.
Carla heard the car coming before it topped the little rise in the road that around here they called a hill. It’s her, she thought. Mrs. Jamieson—Sylvia—home from her holiday in Greece. From the barn door—but far enough inside that she could not readily be seen—she watched the road Mrs. Jamieson would have to drive by on, her place being half a mile farther along the road than Clark and Carla’s.
If it was somebody getting ready to turn in at their gate it would be slowing down by now. But still Carla hoped. Let it not be her.
It was. Mrs. Jamieson turned her head once, quickly—she had all she could do maneuvering her car through the ruts and puddles the rain had made in the gravel—but she didn’t lift a hand off the wheel to wave, she didn’t spot Carla. Carla got a glimpse of a tanned arm bare to the shoulder, hair bleached a lighter color than it had been before, more white now than silver-blond, and an expression that was determined and exasperated and amused at her own exasperation—just the way Mrs. Jamieson would look negotiating such a road. When she turned her head there was something like a bright flash—of inquiry, of hopefulness—that made Carla shrink back.
So
Maybe Clark didn’t know yet. If he was sitting at the computer he would have his back to the window and the road.
But Mrs. Jamieson might have to make another trip. Driving home from the airport, she might not have stopped for groceries—not until she’d been home and figured out what she needed. Clark might see her then. And after dark, the lights of her house would show. But this was July, and it didn’t get dark till late. She might be so tired that she wouldn’t bother with the lights, she might go to bed early.