The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories
Autor Mavis Gallanten Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 noi 2010
Mavis
Gallant
is
admired
and
beloved
as
one
of
the
masters
of
the
modern
short
story.
Selected
from
early
collections
and
theNew
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
cosmopolitan
and
thesestories
take
us
from
Quebec
to
postwar
Europe,
via
New
York
and
NewEngland,
before
settling,
like
their
author,
in
Paris.
Everywhere
thebook
reveals
Gallant's
subtly
penetrating
psychological
insight,
witand
unsentimental
sympathy
for
the
excluded
and
the
exiled,
not
tomention
her
wonderfully
wicked
sense
of
humour.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781408808498
ISBN-10: 1408808498
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Ediția:Trade Paperback.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1408808498
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Ediția:Trade Paperback.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
The
great
witty,
perceptive
and
irreverent
87-year-old
author
will
dointerviews
from
the
Village
Voice
bookshop
and
the
Dome
Café
in
Paris
Notă biografică
Mavis
Gallant
was
born
in
Montreal
in
1922
and
worked
as
a
journalist
atThe
Standardbefore
moving
to
Europe
in
1950
to
devote
herself
to
writing
fiction.After
travelling
extensively
she
settled
in
Paris,
where
she
stilllives.
Her
many
short
story
collections
includeThe
Other
Paris,The
End
of
the
World,Home
Truths,In
TransitandThe
Moslem
Wife.
She
is
also
the
author
of
the
novelsGreen
Water,
Green
SkyandA
Fairly
Good
Time.
She
is
a
Fellow
of
the
Royal
Society
of
Literature
in
London
and
a
Companion
of
the
Order
of
Canada.The
Selected
Stories
of
Mavis
Gallantare
published
by
Bloomsbury.
Recenzii
'Gallant
is
one
of
the
great
short-story
writers
of
our
time'
'The irrefutable master of the short story in English, Mavis Gallant has, among her colleagues, many admirers but no peer. She is the standout. She is the standard-bearer. She is the standar
'Mavis Gallant is a marvellously clear-headed observer, and a rare phrase-maker'
'Gallant is funny, exacting and stern - in fact, an old-fashioned moralist, luminescent, subtle and lasting. Gallant's chronicles of internal and external exile are a fitting tribute to a diasporic century'
'The irrefutable master of the short story in English, Mavis Gallant has, among her colleagues, many admirers but no peer. She is the standout. She is the standard-bearer. She is the standar
'Mavis Gallant is a marvellously clear-headed observer, and a rare phrase-maker'
'Gallant is funny, exacting and stern - in fact, an old-fashioned moralist, luminescent, subtle and lasting. Gallant's chronicles of internal and external exile are a fitting tribute to a diasporic century'
Descriere
'In
this
collection,
we
witness
the
miracle
of
a
great
writer'sbirth
and
brisk
maturation,
a
blossoming
incapable
of
withering,
andthat
remains
masterful
and
truthful
today'
Jhumpa
Lahiri