Mavis Gallant Collected Stories
$39.99
- Hardcover
1096 pages
- Release Date
15 June 2016
Summary
A 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 a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593739 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841593737 |
| Author: | Mavis Gallant, Francine Prose |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1096 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2016 |
| Weight: | 862g |
| Dimensions: | 212mm x 135mm x 42mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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Critics Review
One of the most brilliant story writers in the language.
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 *
About The Author
Mavis Gallant
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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