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The ultimate collection of stories by 'one of the great short-story writers of our time' (Michael Ondaatje) 'Gallant is funny, exacting and stern - in...
Sixteen Stories
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Internationally celebrated, award-winning author Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend: an undisputed master of the short story whose peerless prose ...
With irony and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of such intricate simplicity and spare complexity that critics have rig...
Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the international story, the fine-grained evocation of the quandaries of people who must...
Essays & Reviews
Just as in her fiction, Mavis Gallant is a brilliant observer in her assessments of contemporary headlines, of sociology and mass psychology, of the n...
With a foreword by Brandon Taylor. An elegant, melancholic novella about memory, family and the meaning of home. This is the tale of the fractured fam...
Stories
Short stories....
In Home Truths, Mavis Gallant draws us into the tricky labyrinth of human behaviour, while offering readers her unique, clear-eyed vision of Canadians...
Twenty Stories
A collection of twenty short stories which originally appeared in the New Yorker during the 1950s and '60s....
Selected Canadian Stories
AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL Mavis Gallantโs novels are as memorable as her renowned short stories. Full of wit and psychological poignancy, A Fairly G...
Early and Uncollected Stories
A 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 ...
Eight Stories and a Short Novel
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Internationally celebrated as among the finest stories written in English today, Mavis Gallant's fiction offers a penetrating and powerful vision of c...
Essays and Reviews
The heroine of this bittersweet novel, Shirley Perrigny lives a respectable, but disordered, life and has trouble communicating with, and relating to ...
Stories about Canada and Canadians. Some have appeared only in the "New Yorker," or in other books, but many are virtually unknown even to Mavis Galla...
A Novella and Five Short Stories
The Canadian Immigration Experience
A collection of over thirty short stories by one of the greatest fiction writers in American history, now available in a single volume for the first t...
Introduction by Francine Prose
This generous collection of fifty-two stories, selected from across her prolific career by the author, includes a preface in which she discusses the s...
A Play
Mavis Gallant's only play is a comedy that opens in 1942, in the heat of the battle against Fascism, when it was possible for Canadians to cheer for b...