Montreal Standard Time: The Early Journalism of Mavis Gallant - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550656708 ISBN 13: 9781550656701

Publisher: Vehicule Press, 2024

Synopsis

Montreal Standard Time is drawn from Mavis Gallant's columns in The Montreal Standard during her six-year tenure at the newspaper, beginning in 1944, when she was 22. Gallant reported on an extraordinary range of subjects: labour issues, mining, existentialism, immigration, comedy, mercy killings, feminism, and suffrage. Her journalism is peopled by a rich cast of characters: writers, painters, politicians, criminals, street kids, war brides, refugees, and unwed mothers. Eighty years after they first saw the light, the columns remain as fresh as ever. Written with a precision, flair, and wit that would become her trademark, Montreal Standard Time is journalism of the first order. Taken together, the pieces create a remarkable portrait of Montreal in the eventful years during and after WW2, and of a young woman, fiercely independent and politically active, making her way through it. The book also corrects a long-standing gap in the Gallant oeuvre. Her earliest reporting from The Montreal Standard has never circulated or appeared in book form.

About this title

About the Authors

Bill Richardson, a longtime admirer of the writing of Mavis Gallant, began writing about her on Substack in 2022. His books include Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast, I Saw Three Ships, and After Hamelin, a novel for children. He lives in Vancouver.

Marta Dvorįk is professor of Canadian and postcolonial literatures in English at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, former associate editor of The International Journal of Canadian Studies, and editor of Commonwealth Essays and Studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vehicule Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1550656708
• ISBN 13: 9781550656701
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308
• Editor: Richardson Bill, Besner Neil, Dvorįk Marta