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 Gallant’s 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.
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MAVIS GALLANT was born in Quebec, Canada, in 1922. She began her career as a journalist, before switching to fiction in 1950. She moved to Paris a decade later, and spent the rest of her life there. She published 116 stories in The New Yorker over the course of her career; in addition, she wrote two novels, a play, and a collection of essays. A recipient of the 2002 Rea Award for the Short Story and the 2004 PEN/Nabokov Award for lifetime achievement, she died in 2014 at the age of ninety-one.
Mavis Gallant's fiction is familiar to NEW YORKER readers, but she isn't as widely known in the U.S. as in her native Canada. Gallant, who is from Montreal, has lived in Paris for decades, and this collection of stories set largely in European cities is the first audio collection of her work. It likely won't do much to win new devotees, however. Co-narrator Lorna Raver is a decent match with Gallant's prose, but Yuri Rasovsky affects vague and inappropriate accents for several characters. And while Gallant's stories are filled with insights and wonderfully crafted sentences, they're also humorless and occasionally stuffy, which is why they're more suited to a half-hour with THE NEW YORKER than an audio production. D.B. 2007 Audies Award Finalist © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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