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In this, her ninth collection of short stories, the author of "Overhead in a Balloon" attempts to describe with precision the quirks of human nature and the limits of compassion. A host of characters are surveyed as they struggle to transcend the imprisonment of their provisional lives.
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Mavis Gallant (1922–2014) once told an interviewer that she could no more stop being Canadian than she could change the colour of her eyes. Born in Montreal, she left a career as a leading journalist in that city to move to Paris in 1950 to write.
She published stories on a regular basis in The New Yorker, many of which were anthologized. Her worldwide reputation was established by books such as From the Fifteenth District and Home Truths, which won the Governor General’s Award in 1982. In that same year she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, becoming a Companion of the Order in 1993, the year she published Across the Bridge and was the recipient of a special tribute at the Harbourfront International Festival of Authors in Toronto. She received several honorary degrees from Canadian universities and remained a much sought-after public speaker.
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She published stories on a regular basis in The New Yorker, many of which were anthologized. Her worldwide reputation was established by books such as From the Fifteenth District and Home Truths, which won the Governor General’s Award in 1982. In that same year she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, becoming a Companion of the Order in 1993, the year she published Across the Bridge and was the recipient of a special tribute at the Harbourfront International Festival of Authors in Toronto. She received several honorary degrees from Canadian universities and remained a much sought-after public speaker.
"Twenty stories that first appeared in the New Yorker 's golden era of the 1950s and '60s are gathered for the first time in this brilliant collection. Gallant is one of the great short story writers of our time, and these three groups of stories--"Parents and Children," "Youth, Pursuit and Various Entanglements" and "Relatives, Friends and Adult Confusion"--represent the extraordinary diversity of her endlessly revealing fictions," praised PW.
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- PublisherFaber and Faber Ltd
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0571142125
- ISBN 13 9780571142125
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
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