Mavis Gallant

A New York Times Best Book of the Year: An arresting look at the way time can change family. One of the greatest strengths of Mavis Gallant's writing is her ability to distill a character's emotions into a simple moment-a lingering glance or an unuttered word. Her flair for detail is everywhere in evidence in Across the Bridge, studies of Montreal and Paris over the last century. The primary focus of this story collection is the Carettes, a family...

The City of Lights, as seen by one of its greatest citizens and admirers Paris has been inspiring writers for centuries. Its neighborhoods and people make for a never-ending flow of potential stories. Mavis Gallant, Canadian by birth but Parisian since the 1950s, has created an incredibly loving and accomplished tribute to her adoptive home. In this collection, Gallant illustrates the surprising sense of interconnectedness that comes from living in...

The quilt of the Canadian experience is sewn by one of the nation's greatest treasures Canada is one of the world's most diverse and gorgeous countries, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, with a wealth of experiences and people to match its incredible size and breadth. The nation's impressive variety is on display in Home Truths, Mavis Gallant's ode to her home country through stories. Gallant moves effortlessly through time and place,...

Las novelas de Mavis Gallant son tan memorables como sus famosos cuentos. Llena de ingenio y de mordacidad, Una vida aceptable es una obra maestra del siglo XX, satírica y compasiva. Libre y arrolladora. Shirley Perrigny tiene veintisiete años, es canadiense y vive como expatriada en París. Ha perdido un marido, pero pronto se ha procurado otro, Philippe, un periodista francés de lo más adecuado y exitoso. Despreciada por los parisinos y sermoneada...

The 50 stories include The Other Paris, on a woman who decides not to divorce her husband so she has someone to share her memories of Paris, plus an essay by the author in which she describes the influence, on her novels, of her expatriate life.

"An NYRB Classics Original Mavis Gallant's two novels are as memorable as her many short stories. Full of wit, whim, and psychological poignancy, A Fairly Good Time, here accompanied by Green Water, Green Sky, encapsulates Gallant's unparalleled skill as a storyteller. Shirley Perrigny (nee Norrington, then briefly Higgins), the heroin of A Fairly Good Time, is an original. Derided by the Parisians she lives among and chided by her fellow Canadians,...