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Mavis Gallant
An elegant, melancholic novella about memory, family and the meaning of home.This is the tale of the fractured family life of Bonnie McCarthy, an American divorcee, and her daughter, Flor.
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A collection of over thirty short stories by one of the greatest fiction writers in American history, now available in a single volume for the first time ever.
The immensity…
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Danielle Schaub
Series Editors: Bernth Lindfors, University of Texas at Austin; Robert Lecker, McGill University; David OConnell, Georgia State University; David William Foster, Arizona State University; Janet PA©rez, Texas Tech University.TWAYNES UNITED…
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This new selection of Gallant’s stories, edited by bestselling author Michael Ondaatje, gathers the best of her many stories set in Paris, where Gallant has long lived. Here she writes…
Marta Dvorak
Endowed with a confidant’s insights, Marta Dvorak sets up a trailblazing connection between Mavis Gallant’s dazzling writing and the whole spectrum of the arts.
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A collection of fifty-two stories of spare complexity, often pushing the boundaries of the form in boldly unconventional directions. It ranges from Paris to Berlin to Switzerland, from the Riviera…
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A hardcover edition of a collection of short stories by Mavis Gallant, with a preface by her (reprinted from the first edition of 1996), plus a new introduction by Francine…
Mavis Gallant has been described by Michael Ondaatje as one of the great short story writers of our time. Since 1950, her short stories and novels have commanded the interest…
Mavis Gallant is admired and beloved as one of the masters of the modern short story. Selected from early collections and the New Yorker , where many of the author’s…
An NYRB Classics Original Mavis Gallant’s two novels are as memorable as her many short stories. Full of wit, whim, and psychological poignancy, A Fairly Good Time, here accompanied by…
The complexity and uncertainty of the idea of home are very much at issue in the stories Gallant writes about Canada, her home country. Included in this new collection are…
Christine Evain,Douglas Gibson
In the context of the highly commercial system of publishing, the role of the publisher is constantly questioned and challenged. The purpose of this volume is to highlight the work…
Montreal Standard Time is drawn from Mavis Gallant's columns in The Montreal Standard during her six-year tenure at the newspaper, beginning in 1944, when she was 22. Gallant reported on…
"A superb collection...Page after page, Gallant dazzles. Her voice and sensibility are penetrating, canny, graceful, and incisive."--Washington Post
Best of the Year from Our Pages--The New Yorker
Enthralling essays on…
