The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant - Softcover

Gallant, Mavis

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9780771033308: The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant

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ISBN 10: 0771033303 ISBN 13: 9780771033308

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, 1997

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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 stories that they will re-
discover, and for newer admirers this is a treasure trove of 52 stories by a remarkable modern Canadian master.

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Review:

‘Awesome. These stories are the product of a daunting talent ... triumphant’ -- London Review of Books

‘Gallant is funny, exacting and stern – in fact, an old fashioned moralist ... Luminescent, subtle and lasting’ -- Guardian

‘Gallant is one of the great short-story writers of our time’ -- Michael Ondaatje

About the Author:

Born in Montreal in 1922, Mavis Gallant left a career as a leading journalist in that city to move to Paris in 1950 to write.

Since that time she has been publishing stories on a regular basis in The New Yorker, many of which have been anthologized. Her world-wide reputation has been established by books such as From the Fifteenth District and Home Truths, which won the Governor General’s Award in 1982. In that same year she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, becoming a Companion of the Order in 1993, the year that she published Across the Bridge and was the recipient of a special tribute at the Harbourfront International Festival of Authors in Toronto. In 1996, The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant was published to univer

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