Escapada / Runaway

Con la mirada profunda y sutil que tanto la caracteriza, Alice Munro nos habla sobre el amor, la traición, el pasado y la experiencia del tiempo.

Escribe sobre mujeres de todas las edades y circunstancias, y sobre sus amigos, amantes, padres e hijos. Sus historias, contadas de una forma cruda, directa y honesta, parecen tan reales como la nuestra.

Desde el relato homónimo, donde descubrimos la historia de una mujer incapaz de abandonar a su marido, hasta los cuentos sobre Juliet y sus complicadas relaciones, Munro va desmenuzando la verdad de cada una de sus heroínas cotidianas. El objetivo no es tanto el de contar su historia sino el de revelar el sentido de sus vidas, una sublimación liberadora o una especie de epifanía mediante la cual se dan cuenta de quiénes son y quiénes han sido.

La crítica ha dicho...

«Millones de palabras han sido derramadas en intentos para desvelar qué significa exactamente ser humano. En Escapada Munro obra este milagro.»

The Times

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

"WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2013

The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named Juliet and the emotions that complicate the luster of her intimate relationships. In Munro’s hands, the people she writes about–women of all ages and circumstances, and their friends, lovers, parents, and children–become as vivid as our own neighbors. It is her miraculous gift to make these stories as real and unforgettable as our own."

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Escapada / Runaway

Con la mirada profunda y sutil que tanto la caracteriza, Alice Munro nos habla sobre el amor, la traición, el pasado y la experiencia del tiempo.

Escribe sobre mujeres de todas las edades y circunstancias, y sobre sus amigos, amantes, padres e hijos. Sus historias, contadas de una forma cruda, directa y honesta, parecen tan reales como la nuestra.

Desde el relato homónimo, donde descubrimos la historia de una mujer incapaz de abandonar a su marido, hasta los cuentos sobre Juliet y sus complicadas relaciones, Munro va desmenuzando la verdad de cada una de sus heroínas cotidianas. El objetivo no es tanto el de contar su historia sino el de revelar el sentido de sus vidas, una sublimación liberadora o una especie de epifanía mediante la cual se dan cuenta de quiénes son y quiénes han sido.

La crítica ha dicho...

«Millones de palabras han sido derramadas en intentos para desvelar qué significa exactamente ser humano. En Escapada Munro obra este milagro.»

The Times

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

"WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2013

The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named Juliet and the emotions that complicate the luster of her intimate relationships. In Munro’s hands, the people she writes about–women of all ages and circumstances, and their friends, lovers, parents, and children–become as vivid as our own neighbors. It is her miraculous gift to make these stories as real and unforgettable as our own."

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Escapada / Runaway

Escapada / Runaway

by Alice Munro
Escapada / Runaway

Escapada / Runaway

by Alice Munro

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Con la mirada profunda y sutil que tanto la caracteriza, Alice Munro nos habla sobre el amor, la traición, el pasado y la experiencia del tiempo.

Escribe sobre mujeres de todas las edades y circunstancias, y sobre sus amigos, amantes, padres e hijos. Sus historias, contadas de una forma cruda, directa y honesta, parecen tan reales como la nuestra.

Desde el relato homónimo, donde descubrimos la historia de una mujer incapaz de abandonar a su marido, hasta los cuentos sobre Juliet y sus complicadas relaciones, Munro va desmenuzando la verdad de cada una de sus heroínas cotidianas. El objetivo no es tanto el de contar su historia sino el de revelar el sentido de sus vidas, una sublimación liberadora o una especie de epifanía mediante la cual se dan cuenta de quiénes son y quiénes han sido.

La crítica ha dicho...

«Millones de palabras han sido derramadas en intentos para desvelar qué significa exactamente ser humano. En Escapada Munro obra este milagro.»

The Times

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

"WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2013

The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named Juliet and the emotions that complicate the luster of her intimate relationships. In Munro’s hands, the people she writes about–women of all ages and circumstances, and their friends, lovers, parents, and children–become as vivid as our own neighbors. It is her miraculous gift to make these stories as real and unforgettable as our own."


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788490622179
Publisher: RH Espanol
Publication date: 09/27/2016
Pages: 344
Product dimensions: 4.90(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.80(d)
Language: Spanish

About the Author

About The Author
Even though Alice Munro is known for her love stories, don't mistake her for just another romance writer. Munro never romanticizes love, but rather presents it in all of its frustrating complexity. She does not feel impelled to tack happy endings onto her tales of heartbreak and healing. As a result, Munro's wholly credible love stories have marked her as a true original who spins stories that are as honest as they are dramatic.

Alice Munro got her start in writing as a teenager in Ontario, and published her first story while attending Western Ontario University in 1950. Her first book, a collection of short stories titled Dance of the Happy Shades, would not be published until 1968, but when it arrived, Munro rapidly established herself as a unique voice in contemporary literature. Over the course of fifteen short stories, Munro displayed a firmly focused vision, detailing the loves and life-altering moments of the inhabitants of rural Ontario. Munro takes a gradual, methodical approach to unraveling her stories, often developing a character's perspective through several paragraphs, only to demolish it with a single, biting sentence. Yet she also explores those heartbreaking delusions of her characters with humanity, undercutting the bitterness with genuine compassion.

Munro was instantly recognized for her debut collection of stories, winning the prestigious Governor General's Award in Canada. Monroe would then spend the majority of her career writing short stories rather than novels. "I want to tell a story, in the old-fashioned way -- what happens to somebody -- but I want that 'what happens' to be delivered with quite a bit of interruption, turnarounds, and strangeness," she explained to Random House.com. "I want the reader to feel something is astonishing -- not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me." Munro would only write one novel, Lives of Girls and Women, a coming-of-age tale about a young girl named Del Jordan, which is actually structured more like a collection of short stories than a typical novel. Throughout the rest of her work, she would continue to explore themes of love and the way memories shape one's life in short story collections such as Friend of My Youth, Open Secrets, and the award-winning The Love of a Good Woman, and her most recent, Runaway.

Because her stories are so unencumbered by clichés and speak with such clarity and truthfulness, it is often assumed that Munro's work is largely autobiographical. The fact that she chooses to set so many of her tales in her hometown only fuel these assumptions further. However, Munro says that very little of her material is based on her own life, and takes a more creative approach to inventing her finely developed characters. "Suppose you have -- in memory -- a young woman stepping off a train in an outfit so elegant her family is compelled to take her down a peg (as happened to me once)," she explains, "and it somehow becomes a wife who's been recovering from a mental breakdown, met by her husband and his mother and the mother's nurse whom the husband doesn't yet know he's in love with. How did that happen? I don't know."

As Munro grows older, her themes are turning more and more toward illness and death, yet she continues to display a startling vitality and youthfulness in her writing. A writer with a long and celebrated career, Alice Munro's work is just as compelling, honest, and insightful as ever.

Hometown:

Clinton, Ontario, and Comox, British Columbia

Date of Birth:

July 10, 1931

Place of Birth:

Wingham, Ontario, Canada

Education:

University of Western Ontario (no degree)
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