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Paris stories [electronic resource] / Mavis Gallant.
"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 set in Europe and Paris, where Gallant has long lived. Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. Together they compose a secret history, at once intimate and panoramic, of modern times"--Publisher's description.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781551996318 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1551996316 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource.
- Publisher: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, c2011.
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- The ice wagon going down the street -- Irina -- The latehomecomer -- In transit -- The Moslem wife -- From the fifteenth District -- Speck's idea -- Baum, Gabriel 1935- -- The remission -- Grippes and poches -- Forain -- August -- Mlle. Dias de Corta -- In plain sight -- Scarves, beads, sandals.
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- Paris (France) > Fiction.
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- Electronic books.
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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 captures the range of human experience while evoking time and place with unequalled skill.
This new selection of Gallantâs 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.