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Home Truths
McClelland & Stewart 2011; US$ 18.99In Home Truths , Mavis Gallant draws us into the tricky labyrinth of human behaviour, while offering readers her unique, clear-eyed vision of Canadians both at home and abroad. Ranging in time and place from small-town Quebec during the Depression, to Geneva and Paris in the 1950s, to contemporary Vancouver Island, these stories explore the remorseless... more...
Overhead in a Balloon
McClelland & Stewart 2011; US$ 18.99These twelve stories are set in Paris, Mavis Gallant?s adopted home, a city whose nuances she brings to life through a wide range of characters: squabbling writers, bewildered parents, scheming art dealers, beleaguered tenants, and feckless drifters. An artist?s widow proves more than a match for Sandor Speck, who hopes to make a name for himself with... more...
Paris Stories
McClelland & Stewart 2011; US$ 24.99Internationally 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... more...
The Pegnitz Junction
McClelland & Stewart 2011; US$ 18.99In these dazzling stories, Mavis Gallant immerses us in the lives of ordinary people swept up in the upheaval and displacement that followed in the wake of the Second World War. A bitter yet stubbornly pragmatic woman prepares for what promises to be another disastrous Christmas with her mother, her aunt, and her would-be-war-hero uncle. Engaged to... more...
From The Fifteenth District
McClelland & Stewart 2011; US$ 18.99Set in Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, the nine stories in this glittering collection reflect on the foibles and dilemmas of human relationships. An English family goes to the south of France for the sake of the father?s health, and to get away from an England of rationing and poverty. A displaced person turned French soldier in Algeria... more...
The Cost of Living
New York Review Books 2011; US$ 16.95A New York Review Books Original Mavis Gallant is renowned as one of the great short-story writers of our day. This new gathering of long-unavailable or previously uncollected work presents stories from 1951 to 1971 and shows Gallant's progression from precocious virtuosity, to accomplished artistry, to the expansive innovatory spirit that marks her... more...
Paris Stories
New York Review Books 2011; US$ 15.95A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker for close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times , "radically reshaped the short story for decade after decade." Michael Ondaatje's new selection of Gallant's work gathers some of the most memorable of her stories... more...
Varieties of Exile
New York Review Books 2011; US$ 15.95Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the international story, the fine-grained evocation of the quandaries of people who must make their way in the world without any place to call their own. The irreducible complexity of the very idea of home is especially at issue in the stories Gallant has written about Montreal, where she... more...
Across the Bridge
McClelland & Stewart 2011; US$ 11.95A new collection of stories by Mavis Gallant is always a major publishing event. For this is the writer who?like Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro?has made Canadian short stories a presence on the world literary scene, and on our bestseller lists. In Across the Bridge four of the eleven stories are connected, following the fortunes of the Carette... more...
The Moslem Wife and Other Stories
McClelland & Stewart 2011; US$ 10.95Internationally celebrated as among the finest stories written in English today, Mavis Gallant's fiction offers a penetrating and powerful vision of contemporary human relationships in Europe and North America. The Moslem Wife and Other Stories brings together eleven of Gallant's best stories from over three decades. These embody the beauty, irony,... more...









