FIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EDITION, NOVEMBER 2005

Copyright © 2004 by Alice Munro

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“Runaway,” “Chance,” “Soon,” “Silence,” and “Passion” previously appeared in The New Yorker.

 

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

 

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Ludlow Music, Inc., for permission to reprint an excerpt from the song lyric “Goodnight Irene,” words and music by Huddie Ledbetter and John A. Lomax. TRO-Copyright © 1936 (Renewed), 1950 (Renewed) by Ludlow Music, Inc., New York, NY.

 

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Munro, Alice.
Runaway: stories / Alice Munro—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Women—Fiction. I. Title.
PR9199.3.M8R86 2004
813’.54—dc22
2004046539

 

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