A collection of fifty-two stories selected from across her prolific career by the author, is preceded by 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."
One of the most brilliant story writers in the language.
*The New Yorker*
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*
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
