Varieties of Exile
1st Edition
Published on 27. April 2011
344 pages
978-1-59017-423-4 (ISBN)
Description
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 Muirstories that are wise, funny, and full of insight into the perils and promise of growing up and breaking loose.
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Mavis Gallant was born in Montreal and worked as a journalist at the Montreal Standard before moving to Europe to devote herself to writing fiction. After traveling extensively she settled in Paris, where she still resides. She is the recipient of the 2002 Rea Award for the Short Story and the 2004 PEN/Nabokov Award for lifetime achievement. New York Review Books Classics has published previous collections of Gallant's stories, Paris Stories and The Cost of Living.
Content
- Intro
- Biographical Notes
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- VARIETIES OF EXILE
- THE FENTON CHILD
- THE END OF THE WORLD
- NEW YEAR'S EVE
- THE DOCTOR
- VOICES LOST IN SNOW
- IN YOUTH IS PLEASURE
- BETWEEN ZERO AND ONE
- VARIETIES OF EXILE
- 1933
- THE CHOSEN HUSBAND
- FROM CLOUD TO CLOUD
- FLORIDA
- LET IT PASS
- IN A WAR
- THE CONCERT PARTY
- Copyright and More Information
