Mavis Gallant Collected Stories
Mavis Gallant Collected Stories
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Mavis Gallant Collected Stories by Mavis Gallant
This generous collection of fifty-two stories selected from across her prolific career by the author, is preceded by a preface in which she discusses the sources of her art. With irony and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of spare complexity, often pushing the boundaries of the form in boldly unconventional directions. The settings in the COLLECTED STORIES range from Paris to Berlin to Switzerland, from the Riviera to the Côte d'Azur, and her characters are almost all exiles of one sort or another, as she herself was the most of her expatriate life. The wit and precision of her prose, combined with her expansive view of humanity, provide a rare and deep reading pleasure. With breathtaking control and compression, Gallant delivers a whole life, a whole world, in each story.
One of the most brilliant story writers in the language* The New Yorker *
Gallant's talent is as versatile and witty as it is somber and empathetic. -- John Updike
Funny, exacting, and stern... Gallant's chronicles of internal and external exile are a fitting tribute to a diasporic century. * The Guardian *
Gallant's talent is as versatile and witty as it is somber and empathetic. -- John Updike
Funny, exacting, and stern... Gallant's chronicles of internal and external exile are a fitting tribute to a diasporic century. * The Guardian *
A widely admired master of the short story, Mavis Gallant was a Canadian-born writer who lived in France and died in 2014 at the age of ninety-one. Her more than one hundred stories, most published in The New Yorker over five decades beginning in 1951 have influenced generations of writers and earned her comparisons to Anton Chekhov, Henry James, and George Eliot. She has been hailed by Michael Ondaatje as "one of the great story writers of our time."
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| ISBN 13 | 9781841593739 |
| ISBN 10 | 1841593737 |
| Title | Mavis Gallant Collected Stories |
| Author | Mavis Gallant |
| Series | Everyman's Library Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Everyman |
| Year published | 2016-06-02 |
| Number of pages | 1096 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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