{"product_id":"books-a-fairly-good-time-and-green-water-green-sky-by-mavis-gallant","title":"A Fairly Good Time and Green Water, Green Sky","description":"\u003cb\u003eAN NYRB CLASICS ORIGINAL\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mavis Gallant's novels are as memorable as her renowned short stories. Full of wit and psychological poignancy, \u003ci\u003eA Fairly Good Time\u003c\/i\u003e, here with \u003ci\u003eGreen Water, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGreen Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, encapsulates Gallant's unparalleled skill as a storyteller. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Shirley Perrigny (n e Norrington, then briefly Higgins), the heroine of \u003ci\u003eA Fairly Good Time\u003c\/i\u003e, is an original. Derided by the Parisians she lives among and chided by her fellow Canadians, this young widow--recently remarried to a French journalist named Philippe--is fond of quoting Jane Austen and Kingsley Amis and of using her myopia as a defense against social aggression. As the fixed points in Shirley's life begin to recede--Philippe having apparently though not definitively left--her freewheeling, makeshift, and self-abnegating ways come to seem an aspect of devotion to her fellow man. Could this unreliable protagonist be the unwitting heroine of her own story?\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eGreen Water, Green Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, Gallant's first novel, is a darker tale of the fractured family life of Bonnie McCarthy, an American divorc e, and her daughter, Flor. Uprooted and unmoored, mother and daughter live like itinerants--in Venice, Cannes, and Paris--glamorous and dependent. With little hope of escape, Flor attempts to flee this untidy life and the false notes of her mother.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53507883139345,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781590179871.jpg?v=1778136689","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-a-fairly-good-time-and-green-water-green-sky-by-mavis-gallant","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}