Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant
Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to the New Yorker for close to fifty years, and the undisputed master of the short story. Her peerless prose captures the range of human experience while evoking time and place with unequaled skill. This superb collection of fifteen of Gallant's stories, edited and with an introduction by bestselling author Michael Ondaatje, gathers the best of her many stories set all over Europe, all written in Paris where she has long lived. Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. Together they compose a secret history, at once intimate and panoramic, of modern times. Besides an introduction by Michael Ondaatje, this book includes the following stories: The Ice Wagon Going Down the StreetIrinaThe LatehomecomerIn TransitThe Moslem WifeFrom the Fifteenth DistrictSpeck's IdeaBaum, Gabriel, 1935-( )The RemissionGrippes and PochesForainAugust Mlle. Dias de CortaIn Plain SightScarves, Beads, SandalsAfterword: About the Stories, by Mavis Gallant
Mavis Gallant (1922-2014) once told an interviewer that she could no more stop being Canadian than she could change the colour of her eyes. Born in Montreal, she left a career as a leading journalist in that city to move to Paris in 1950 to write.
She published stories on a regular basis in The New Yorker, many of which were anthologized. Her worldwide reputation was established by books such as From the Fifteenth District and Home Truths, which won the Governor General's Award in 1982. In that same year she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, becoming a Companion of the Order in 1993, the year she published Across the Bridge and was the recipient of a special tribute at the Harbourfront International Festival of Authors in Toronto. She received several honorary degrees from Canadian universities and remained a much sought-after public speaker.
She published stories on a regular basis in The New Yorker, many of which were anthologized. Her worldwide reputation was established by books such as From the Fifteenth District and Home Truths, which won the Governor General's Award in 1982. In that same year she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, becoming a Companion of the Order in 1993, the year she published Across the Bridge and was the recipient of a special tribute at the Harbourfront International Festival of Authors in Toronto. She received several honorary degrees from Canadian universities and remained a much sought-after public speaker.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781590170229 |
| ISBN 10 | 1590170229 |
| Title | Paris Stories |
| Author | Mavis Gallant |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Year published | 2002-10-31 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
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