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Carla heard the car coming before it topped the little rise in the road that around here they called a hill.
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Runaway is a book of short stories by Alice Munro. First published in 2004 by McClelland and Stewart, it was awarded that year's Giller Prize and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Contains: Runaway Chance Soon Silence Passion Trespasses Tricks Powers
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1960s
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Alice Munro
10 July 1931 – 2024-05-13
Alice Ann Munro (/mʌnˈroʊ/, née Laidlaw /ˈleɪdlɔː/; born 10 July 1931) was a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade."
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