In stories of astonishing compression and insight, Mavis Gallant wrote of characters severed from their home, exiles disconnected from each other and from themselves. Tracing the fault lines of the post-war world in the intimate lives of her characters, she could conjure an entire worldview in a telling gesture or passing comment.
This new volume, selected and introduced by Tessa Hadley, collects the finest work from across Gallant's career. Here are stories of young men returning from wartime internment to changed families, snobbish social climbers haunted by the words of their downtrodden colleagues, and children peering through glass at the secrets and infidelities of their parents. Complex, moving and painfully true, they secure her position among the world's great short story writers.
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- Praise
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction by Tessa Hadley
- In Italy (1956)
- The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street (1963)
- Paola and Renata (1965)
- The Wedding Ring (1969)
- The Latehomecomer (1974)
- Irina (1974)
- The Moslem Wife (1976)
- The Doctor (1977)
- Voices Lost in Snow (1976)
- A Recollection (1983)
- The Colonel’s Child (1983)
- Rue de Lille (1983)
- Lena (1983)
- 1933 (1985)
- The Chosen Husband (1985)
- Forain (1991)
- Available and Coming Soon from Pushkin Press Classics
- About the Authors
- Copyright
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