Mavis Gallant Collected Stories

Mavis Gallant, Francine Prose

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Everyman's Library
15 June 2016

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics

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.

This generous 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 C te d'Azur, and her characters are almost all exiles of one sort or another, as she herself was the most of her expatriate life.

The wit and precision of her prose, combined with her expansive view of humanity, provide a rare and deep reading pleasure. With breathtaking control and compression, Gallant delivers a whole life, a whole world, in each story.

By: Mavis Gallant
Introduction by: Francine Prose
Imprint: Everyman's Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 212mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 42mm
Weight: 862g
ISBN: 9781841593739
ISBN 10: 1841593737
Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Pages: 1096
Publication Date: 15 June 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.""

Reviews for Mavis Gallant Collected Stories

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 *