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The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant

Introduction by Francine Prose

Introduction by Francine Prose

By Mavis Gallant
Introduction by Francine Prose

By Mavis Gallant
Introduction by Francine Prose

By Mavis Gallant
Introduction by Francine Prose

By Mavis Gallant
Introduction by Francine Prose

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Part of Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series

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    About The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant

    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 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.”

    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 Italian Riviera to the Côte d’Azur, and her characters are almost all exiles of one sort or another, as she herself was for 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.

    About The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant

    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 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.”

    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 Italian Riviera to the Côte d’Azur, and her characters are almost all exiles of one sort or another, as she herself was for 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.

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    About Mavis Gallant

    MAVIS GALLANT was born in Quebec, Canada, in 1922. She began her career as a journalist, before switching to fiction in 1950. She moved to Paris a decade later, and spent the rest of her life there. She published 116 stories… More about Mavis Gallant

    About Mavis Gallant

    MAVIS GALLANT was born in Quebec, Canada, in 1922. She began her career as a journalist, before switching to fiction in 1950. She moved to Paris a decade later, and spent the rest of her life there. She published 116 stories… More about Mavis Gallant

    Product Details

    Category: Short Stories | Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $35.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Aug 09, 2016 | 1000 Pages | 4-7/8 x 8 | ISBN 9781101907634

    Category: Short Stories | Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Aug 09, 2016 | 1000 Pages | ISBN 9781101907641

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    Praise

    “One of the most brilliant story writers in the language.”
    —The New Yorker
     
    “A terrifyingly good writer.”
    —Margaret Atwood
     
    “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 (London)

    “Mavis Gallant has a technical daring and an innovative freedom that, as in a painting by Velásquez, remain hidden unless you look closely, pay attention, and at the same time manage to surrender to the mystery of art . . . She places a huge amount of faith in her reader’s intelligence, a faith which demands and rewards careful reading. But she’s also very funny, and a great deal of fun. Her stories are full of satisfying reverses and breathtaking passages of dazzlingly precise, virtuosic writing.”
    —from the new Introduction by Francine Prose

    Table Of Contents

    Introduction by Francine Prose
    Select Bibliography
    Chronology
    Preface by Mavis Gallant
     
    THE THIRTIES AND FORTIES
    The Moslem Wife (1976
    The Four Seasons (1975)
    The Fenton Child (1993)
     
    THE FIFTIES
    The Other Paris (1953)
    Across The Bridge (1993)
    The Latehomecomer (1974)
    Senor Pined (1954)
    By the Sea (1954)
    When We Were Nearly Young (1960)
    The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street (1963)
    The Remission (1979)
     
    THE SIXTIES
    The Captive Niece (1969)
    Questions and Answers (1966)
    Ernst in Civilian Clothes (1963)
    An Unmarried Man’s Summer (1963)
    April Fish (1968)  
    In Transit (1965)
    O Lasting Peace (1972)
    An Alien Flower (1972)
    The End of the World (1967)
    New Year’s Eve (1970)
     
    THE SEVENTIES
    In the Tunnel (1971)
    Irina (1974)
    Potter (1977)
    Baum, Gabriel, 1935–( )(1979)
    Speck’s Idea (1979)
    From the Fifteenth District (1978)
    The Pegnitz Junction (1973)
     
    THE EIGHTIES AND NINETIES
    Luc and His Father (1982)
    Overhead in a Balloon (1984)
    Kingdom Come (1986)
    Forain (1991)
    A State of Affairs (1991)
    Mlle. Dias de Corta (1992)
    Scarves, Beads, Sandals (1995)
     
    LINNET MUIR
    The Doctor (1977)
    Voices Lost in Snow (1976)
    In Youth Is Pleasure (1975)
    Between Zero and One (1975)
    Varieties of Exile (1976)
     
    THE CARETTE SISTERS
    1933 (1985/8)
    The Chosen Husband (1985)
    From Cloud to Cloud (1985)
    Florida (1985)
     
    EDOUARD, JULIETTE, LENA
    A Recollection (1983)
    The Colonel’s Child (1983)
    Rue de Lille(1983)
    Lena (1983)
     
    HENRI GRIPPES
    A Painful Affair (1981)
    A Flying Start (1982)
    Grippes and Poche (1982)
    In Plain Sight (1993) 

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