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  • From the Fifteenth District

    Stories

    by Mavis Gallant ...
    "A fine-tuned and elegant collection" from the prize-winning author of Paris Stories ( Kirkus Reviews) .Mavis Gallant has a unique talent for distilling the sense of otherness one feels abroad into something tangible and utterly understandable. In this collection, she relates the stories of those stranded in relationships, places, and even times in which they don't belong.In "The Moslem Wife" a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant

    Introduction by Francine Prose

    by Mavis Gallant ...
    Series series Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
    This generous collection of fifty-two stories, selected from across her prolific career by the author, includes a preface in which she discusses the sources of her art.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 ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Home Truths

    Selected Canadian Stories

    by Mavis Gallant ...
    From a PEN Award winner, these tales ranging from Depression-era Quebec to contemporary Vancouver offer "irresistible storytelling through and through" ( Kirkus Reviews).Canada is one of the world's most diverse and gorgeous countries, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, with a wealth of experiences and people to match its incredible size and breadth. The nation's impressive variety ... Read more

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  • Overhead in a Balloon

    Twelve Stories of Paris

    by Mavis Gallant ...
    The City of Lights, as seen by one of its greatest citizens and admirersParis has been inspiring writers for centuries. Its neighborhoods and people make for a never-ending flow of potential stories. Mavis Gallant, Canadian by birth but Parisian since the 1950s, has created an incredibly loving and accomplished tribute to her adoptive home.In this collection, Gallant illustrates the surprising ... Read more

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  • Across the Bridge

    Stories

    by Mavis Gallant ...
    A New York Times Best Book of the Year: Short stories centered around a French Canadian family that relocates to Paris in the years before WWII.One of the greatest strengths of Mavis Gallant's writing is her ability to distill a character's emotions into a simple moment—a lingering glance or an unuttered word. Her flair for detail is everywhere in evidence in Across the Bridge, studies of Montreal ... Read more

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  • The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant

    by Mavis Gallant ...
    A collection of over thirty short stories by a great modern writer, now available in a single volume for the first time ever.Mavis Gallant’s extraordinary mastery of the short story remains insufficiently recognized. She may be the best writer of stories since the early-1950s prime of John Cheever, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O’Connor, and even in such august company, her work is sui generis. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Pegnitz Junction

    A Novella and Five Short Stories

    by Mavis Gallant ...
    A devastating collection exploring the wake of mankind's greatest conflictWorld War II exerted a psychic toll on Europe that is still evident today. The Pegnitz Junction is Mavis Gallant's look at how Europe handles that collective pain. In the title novella of this sharply written collection, a girl rides the train with her boyfriend and his son in postwar Europe. Onboard, she encounters all ... Read more

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  • Varieties of Exile

    by Mavis Gallant ...
    Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the international story, the fine-grained evocation of the quandaries of people who must make their way in the world without any place to call their own. The irreducible complexity of the very idea of home is especially at issue in the stories Gallant has written about Montreal, where she was born, although she has lived in Paris for ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Cost of Living

    Early and Uncollected Stories

    by Mavis Gallant ...
    A New York Review Books OriginalMavis Gallant is renowned as one of the great short-story writers of our day. This new gathering of long-unavailable or previously uncollected work presents stories from 1951 to 1971 and shows Gallant's progression from precocious virtuosity, to accomplished artistry, to the expansive innovatory spirit that marks her finest work."Madeleine's Birthday," the first of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Paris Stories

    by Mavis Gallant ...
    A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINALMavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorkerfor close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, "radically reshaped the short story for decade after decade." Michael Ondaatje's new selection of Gallant's work gathers some of the most memorable of her stories set in Europe and Paris, where Gallant has long lived. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • What Is To Be Done?

    by Mavis Gallant ...
    Mavis Gallant’s only play, which premiered at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre on November 11, 1982, is a comedy that opens in 1942, in the heat of the battle against Fascism, when it was possible for Canadians to cheer for both Stalin and the Royal Family. At home in Montreal, Jenny (18) is impressed by her friend Molly’s copy of a political pamphlet written by V. I. Lenin entitled What Is To Be Done? ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • A Fairly Good Time and Green Water, Green Sky

    by Mavis Gallant ...
    AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINALMavis Gallant’s novels are as memorable as her renowned short stories. Full of wit and psychological poignancy, A Fairly Good Time, here with Green Water, Green Sky, encapsulates Gallant’s unparalleled skill as a storyteller.Shirley Perrigny (née Norrington, then briefly Higgins), the heroine of A Fairly Good Time, is an original. Derided by the Parisians she lives among ... Read more

    $9.99 USD