Mavis Gallant

• Mar-1980
• / General Fiction
• 

Set in Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, the nine stories in this glittering collection reflect on the foibles and dilemmas of human relationships. An English family goes to the south of France for the sake of the fatherââ,¬â"¢s healt...

• Mar-1985
• / General Fiction
• 

Arranged in three sections, this volume includes a group of wide-ranging tales set in Canada, stories under the heading "Canadians Abroad," in which Canadians confront the subtleties and sophistication of Europe, and a final section that brings toget...

• Feb-1987
• / General Fiction
• 

These twelve stories are set in Paris, Mavis Gallant’s adopted home, a city whose nuances she brings to life through a wide range of characters: squabbling writers, bewildered parents, scheming art dealers, beleaguered tenants, and feckless drifter...

• Apr-1989
• / General Fiction
• 

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 imp...

• May-1991
• / General Fiction
• 

• Sep-1993
• / General Fiction
• 

A new collection of stories by Mavis Gallant is always a major publishing event. For this is the writer who–like Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro–has made Canadian short stories a presence on the world literary scene, and on our bestseller...

• Jun-1994
• / General Fiction
• 

Internationally celebrated as among the finest stories written in English today, Mavis Gallant's fiction offers a penetrating and powerful vision of contemporary human relationships in Europe and North America.

The Moslem Wife and Other Storie...

• Feb-1995
• / General Fiction
• 

Through the eyes of four observers, this novel tells the story of the relationship between a mother, Bonnie, and her daughter, Flor. With Venice and Paris as a backdrop, the frailty of the emotions that connect the characters is exposed through Flor'...

• Sep-1996
• / General Fiction
• 

With irony and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of such intricate simplicity and spare complexity that critics have rightly compared her with Henry James and Anton Chekhov. Readers will discover, or rediscover, the plea...

• Nov-2002
• / General Fiction
• 

A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINALMavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorkerfor close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, "radically reshaped the short story for decade after decad...

• Oct-2003
• / General Fiction
• 

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 ...

• Jan-2004
• / General Fiction
• 

"Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one. Shut the book. Read something else. Come back later. Stories can wait" - Mavis Gallant. In 1950, "The New Yorker" accepte...

• Apr-2009
• / General Fiction
• 

A New York Review Books Original
Mavis Gallant is renowned as one of the great short-story writers of our day. This new gathering of long-unavailable or previously uncollected work presents stories from 1951 to 1971 and shows Gallant's progression...

• Jun-2010
• / General Fiction
• 

A New York Review Books OriginalMavis Gallant is renowned as one of the great short-story writers of our day. This new gathering of long-unavailable or previously uncollected work presents stories from 1951 to 1971 and shows Gallant's progression fro...

• May-2016
• / Psychological Suspense
• 

AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL Mavis Gallant’s novels are as memorable as her renowned short stories. Full of wit and psychological poignancy, A Fairly Good Time, here with Green Water, Green Sky, encapsulates Gallant’s unparalleled skill as a st...

• Jun-2016
• / General Fiction
• 

• Aug-2016
• / General Fiction
• 

This generous collection of fifty-two stories, selected from across her prolific career by the author, includes a preface in which she discusses the sources of her art. A widely admired master of the short story, Mavis Gallant was a Canadian-born ...

• Nov-2024
• / General Fiction
• 

A collection of over thirty short stories by one of the greatest fiction writers in American history, now available in a single volume for the first time ever.The immensity of Gallant's achievement still seems insufficiently recognized. Alice Munro's...

• / General Fiction
• 

A devastating collection exploring the wake of mankind's greatest conflict World War II exerted a psychic toll on Europe that is still evident today. The Pegnitz Junction is Mavis Gallant's look at how Europe handles that collective pain. In the t...