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This generous collection of fifty-two stories selected from across
her prolific career by the author, is preceded by a preface in
which she discusses the sources of her art. With irony and an
unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of
spare complexity, often pushing the boundaries of the form in
boldly unconventional directions. The settings in the COLLECTED
STORIES range from Paris to Berlin to Switzerland, from the Riviera
to the Cote d'Azur, and her characters are almost all exiles of one
sort or another, as she herself was the most of her expatriate
life. The wit and precision of her prose, combined with her
expansive view of humanity, provide a rare and deep reading
pleasure. With breathtaking control and compression, Gallant
delivers a whole life, a whole world, in each story.
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Varieties of Exile (Paperback)
Mavis Gallant; Introduction by Russell Banks
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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 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 was born, although she has lived in Paris for
more than half a century.
"Varieties of Exile," Russell Banks's extensive new selection from
Gallant's work, demonstrates anew the remarkable reach of this
writer's singular art. Among its contents are three previously
uncollected stories, as well as the celebrated
semi-autobiographical sequence about Linnet Muir--stories that are
wise, funny, and full of insight into the perils and promise of
growing up and breaking loose.
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