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.
Since 1950, the year that "The New Yorker" accepted one of her short stories and changed her life, Mavis Gallant has written some of the finest short stories in the English language. In tribute to her extraordinary career this elegant 900-page volume brings together the work of her lifetime. Devoted admirers will find stories they do not know, or ...
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.
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.
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.
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".
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