The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant
For almost 50 years, Mavis Gallant, a Canadian but a long-time resident of Paris, has been writing some of the most intelligent, captivating short stories in the English language. A regular contributor to The New Yorker, she has won numerous prizes in Canada and elsewhere. The 52 stories in this collection cover the period from the '50s to the '90s, and they show Gallant at her best. Because they're written with an astonishing precision and an almost geological density, the longer stories feel to the reader like novels. A line from "Speck's Idea" shows the amount of detail and action she can calmly pack into a single sentence: "A minute after having pushed the gate and tugged the rusted wire bellpull, he found himself alone in a bleak sitting room, from which his hostess had been called by a whistling kettle. " Gallant's venue is Europe, that bent old man of profound culture and deep, troubling memories, that half-continent "with its pettiness and faded cruelty, its crabbed richness and sentimentality. " The majority of her stories are set in France (especially Paris), but they can range from the shores of the Baltic to the beaches of the Mediterranean. She moulds unforgettable characters of every age, and plumbs their lives with marvellous insight, telling stories that are completely natural in their structure, refreshing in their light-handed wit, and ennobling in their humanity. --Mark Frutkin Author(s): Mavis Gallant. Binding Hardcover. Publisher(s): McClelland & Stewart. Label: McClelland & Stewart.
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