Mavis Gallant

The Cost of Living

Early and Uncollected Stories

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Mavis Gallant is admired and beloved as one of the masters of the modern short story. Selected from early collections and the New Yorker, where many of the author's stories have appeared over the last fifty years, and with an introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri, The Cost of Livingreveals a writer coming into her own. The stories span the first twentyyears of a long career, from the poise and poignancy of her very firstpublished story, 'Madeleine's Birthday' (1951), to the masterlyexploration of the passage of time in the long story 'The BurgundyWeekend' (1971) that appears here in book form for the first time.Gallant's sensibility has always been c… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4088-1794-0
EAN: 9781408817940
Produktnummer: 13959334
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 368 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 482 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Mavis Gallant was born in Montral and has lived in Paris for many years. She has written eleven books, including GREEN WATER, GREEN SKY, her first novel, and PARIS NOTEBOOKS: ESSAYS AND REVIEWS. Her latest collection of stories was ACROSS THE BRIDGE.