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The Selected Stories
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-
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Paperback, 912 pages
Published
September 13th 1997
by McClelland & Stewart
(first published 1996)
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These are marvellous, first-rate short stories, and they make me think very much of Katherine Mansfield's work, no higher praise. Gallant was born in Canada and settled in Paris,a similar trajectory to that of Mansfield, who was a New Zealander who came to Europe around the time of World War 1. But the war that changed everything for Gallant was World War 2, and her best stories are at the very least haunted by it, the way it destroyed homelands and identities. Hard to pick out favourites, but '...more
Few books make me laugh aloud. Gallant has an amazing eye and ear for absurdity in human behavior, yet she is not cold . . . not sure how she manages that.
Many wonderful stories--including a few about Poles in Paris.And yet...too passive, too melancholic...,...hopeless people caught in their hopelessness...one can only read her work off and on.
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Canadian journalist and fiction writer. In her twenties, Gallant worked as a reporter for the Montreal Standard. She left journalism in 1950 to pursue fiction writing. To that end, always needing autonomy and privacy, she moved to France.
In 1981, Gallant was honoured by her native country and made an Officer of the Order of Canada for her contribution to literature. That same year she also receive...more
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“I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist. If it is child's play, an extension of make believe - something one is frequently assured by people who write about writing - how to account for the overriding wish to do that, just that, only that, and consider it as rational an occupation as riding a bicycle over the Alps?”
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