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Fiction Short Stories (single Author)

Paris Stories

Penguin Modern Classics Edition

by (author) Mavis Gallant

Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Initial publish date
May 2018
Category
Short Stories (single author), Literary, 20th Century
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780735253377
    Publish Date
    May 2018
    List Price
    $22.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780771032820
    Publish Date
    Nov 2002
    List Price
    $24.99

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Description

Internationally celebrated, award-winning author Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend: an undisputed master of the short story whose peerless prose captures the range of human experience while evoking time and place with unequalled skill.

This new selection of Gallant’s stories, edited by novelist and poet Michael Ondaatje, gathers the best of her many stories set in Paris, where Gallant has long lived. Here she writes of expatriates and locals, exile and homecoming, and of the illusions of youth and age, offering a kaleidoscopic impression of the world within the world that is Paris.

About the author

 Mavis Gallant (1922–2014) once told an interviewer that she could no more stop being Canadian than she could change the colour of her eyes. Born in Montreal, she left a career as a leading journalist in that city to move to Paris in 1950 to write.

She published stories on a regular basis in The New Yorker, many of which were anthologized. Her worldwide reputation was 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 she published Across the Bridge and was the recipient of a special tribute at the Harbourfront International Festival of Authors in Toronto. She received several honorary degrees from Canadian universities and remained a much sought-after public speaker.

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Editorial Reviews

Praise for Mavis Gallant:

“She stands among the best writers of the century.” —Canadian Forum

“Mavis Gallant’s finely honed prose captures the small details that illuminate a life.” —Publishers Weekly

“Mavis Gallant writes some of the most superbly crafted and perceptive stories of our time.” —Globe and Mail

“Ms. Gallant . . . has dared to drift in a disorienting century, always trusting her own imaginative compass. Her fiction, never fooled into trying to keep up with history, will last a long time.” —New York Times Book Review

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