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1	Green water, green sky more books like this by Mavis Gallant add to wishlist Through the eyes of four observers, this novel tells the story of the relationship between a mother, Bonnie, and her daughter, Flor. With Venice and Paris as a backdrop, the frailty of the emotions that connect the characters is exposed through Flor's decline into insanity. see all copies from $10.78! new only from $19.77! \| first editions
2	Home Truths more books like this by Mavis Gallant add to wishlist In "Home Truths," Mavis Gallant draws us into the tricky labyrinth of human behaviour, while offering readers her unique, clear-eyed vision of Canadians both at home and abroad. Ranging in time and place from small-town Quebec during the Depression, to Geneva and Paris in the 1950s, to contemporary Vancouver Island, these stories explore the ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
3	Varieties of Exile more books like this by Mavis Gallant add to wishlist The complexity and uncertainty of the idea of home are very much at issue in the stories Gallant writes about Canada, her home country. Included in this new collection are the celebrated Linnet Muir stories, wonderfully wise and funny investigations into the difficulties of growing up and breaking free. see all copies from $2.96! new only from $8.97! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Paris Stories more books like this by Mavis Gallant add to wishlist This new selection of Gallant's stories, edited by bestselling author Michael Ondaatje, gathers the best of her many stories set in Paris, where Gallant has long lived. Here she writes of expatriates and locals, exile and homecoming, and of the illusions of youth and age, offering a kaleidoscopic impression of the world within a world that is ... see all copies from $4.87! new only from $9.56! \| SVS
5	The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant by Mavis Llant, Mavis Gallant add to wishlist Seventy-five of Mavis Gallant's quirky, superb, ironic stories. see all copies from $9.65! new only from $126.67! \| first editions
6	The Garden of Happiness more books like this by Erika Tamar, Mavis Gallant, Barbara Lambase (Illustrator) add to wishlist Marisol and her neighbors turn a vacant New York City lot into a lush community garden. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.25! \| first editions \| SVS
7	From the Fifteenth District more books like this by Mavis Gallant add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.93! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Across the Bridge more books like this by Mavis Gallant add to wishlist A collection of short stories from the author of "In Transit, "Overhead in a Balloon" and "Paris Notebook". The first four stories feature the French-Canadian Carette family over three generations, while the other seven stories are set in Paris, where the author lived for many years. see all copies from $2.50! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Across the Bridge more books like this by Mavis Llant, Mavis Gallant add to wishlist These stories, like much of Mavis Gallant's work, take place mostly in Montreal and Paris, and several of them involve the fortunes of one family, the Carettes. The stories include "1933," "Kingdom Come," "The Fenton Child," and eight more, including the title story. All originally appeared in The New Yorker. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.94! \| first editions
10	Across the Bridge: Stories by Mavis Llant, Mavis Gallant add to wishlist With remarkable perception, Gallant weaves stories of intricate simplicity and spare complexity. With irony and an unfailing eye for telling detail, she cannily observes the illusions that people necessarily create and destroy in the tangle of life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.60! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Overhead in a Balloon: Twelve Stories of Paris more books like this by Mavis Llant, Mavis Gallant add to wishlist A collection of twelve recent short works, all set in Paris, the author's adopted home and a city whose nuances she brings to life through a wide range of characters; squabbling writers, bewildered parents, scheming art dealers, feckless drifters. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	The Moslem Wife and Other Stories more books like this by Mavis Gallant, Mordecai Richler (Afterword by) add to wishlist McClelland & Stewart's elegant New Canadian Library series acknowledges and celebrates Canada's glorious literary achievements. Original Afterwords and bibliographies by leading writers complete each book. -- Over 300 years of excellence in Canadian writing -- Over one million sold since 1990 see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.59! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Home truths : selected Canadian stories more books like this by Mavis Gallant add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
14	Paris Notebooks: Essays and Reviews more books like this by Mavis Llant, Mavis Gallant add to wishlist Just as in her fiction, Mavis Gallant is a brilliant observer in her assessments of contemporary headlines, of sociology and mass psychology, of the national character and in her witty, often devastating critiques of other writers. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
15	In Transit: Twenty Stories more books like this by Mavis Gallant add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $57.44! \| first editions \| SVS
16	Paris notebooks : essays & reviews more books like this by Mavis Gallant add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
17	Pegnitz Junction more books like this by Mavis Llant, Mavis Gallant add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
18	In Transit: 220 Stories by Mavis Llant, Mavis Gallant add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $82.38! \| first editions
19	The Other Paris more books like this by Mavis Gallant add to wishlist see all copies from $3.08! first editions
20	My Heart is Broken by Mavis Llant, Mavis Gallant add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
21	Home Truths more books like this by Mavis Llant, Mavis Gallant add to wishlist Here are sixteen irresistible short stories from Mavis Gallant, the award-winning writer hailed in a front page review in the New York Times as "one of the finest practitioners of the short story in the English language". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.98! \| SVS
22	The End of the World and Other Stories more books like this by Mavis Gallant add to wishlist see all copies from $2.95! first editions
23	A Fairly Good Time more books like this by Mavis Gallant add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
24	What is to be done? more books like this by Mavis Gallant add to wishlist see all copies from $17.99! signed copies \| first editions
25	The Macmillan Anthology by John; Rooke Leon; Keath Fraser Metcalf, Mavis Gallant, Terry Griggs, Norman Levine, John Newlove add to wishlist see all copies from $8.35! signed copies \| first editions

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