The stories in "Escapes" take place in a perilous world, swirling with inexorable forces - lost love, illness, death.

This perilous world is about to blow.

A weak man who used his wits to survive in a perilous world?

And a child's being is not a set of "behaviors" to be modified or approved; it's an exotic, distant, sometimes perilous world to be explored.

Stability is no small virtue in the perilous world of dance.

He had to establish stronger contact with the perilous world around him in order to find new ways to control it.

Instead, it defines a perilous new world where the rules of attraction aren't what they used to be.

Other strategies are more considered, the advice of parents worried sick as their children grope for freedom in a perilous world.

It was all around her, like a strange and perilous world.

But the setback illustrates the financial dangers facing companies that trade in the unpredictable and often perilous world of emerging markets.