- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Emblem Editions (Sep 17 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 077103296X
- ISBN-13: 978-0771032967
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.5 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 204 g
-
Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#15,024 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #24 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Canadian > Women Writers
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||
Product Details |
Product Description
Review
“With extraordinary art, Gallant has recreated and represented worlds in which we are all involved; worlds in which politics and history, memory and confusion, wit and compassion meet.…”
–Quill & Quire
“We come away from [her stories] both thoughtful and enriched, reflecting on the borderlines that divide folly from dishonesty and evil.”
–Globe and Mail
“A master of the modern short story.”
–Maclean’s
“She stands among the best writers of the century.…If Gallant writes about life’s tragedies, the ravages and aftermaths of wars, of what they do to human lives, she is also full of pleasures, of wonderful comforts, of laughter, of a wonderful capacity to enjoy, to savour, to rejoice in light.”
–Canadian Forum
“Compassionate in a tough-minded, unsentimental way, Gallant embraces humanity in all its foibles, flaws and foolishness.”
–Kitchener- Waterloo Record
“Gallant has chronicled displaced lives with pulse-stopping mastery and has leavened her often painful message with reminders of the strength of human resilience.…Gallant is a master storyteller.”
–London Free Press
“Mavis Gallant writes as the Dutch used to paint, filling each of her canvases, whether large or small, out to the edges with closely observed figures; some of them are amusing and others saddening, and all are bathed in an uncanny light that has nothing to do with the sun or moon but finds its source in an incandescent mind.…She leads us into a world where everything is ablaze and yet cool to the touch – a world of wit and pity mingled, where whatever the writer’s eye falls on is made to yield a bittersweet, nourishing fruit.”
–Brendan Gill
“Mavis Gallant is a master stylist with breathtaking powers of observation.…Gallant’s stories are densely coloured worlds, spare and thorough.…”
–Montreal Gazette
“The satisfaction that comes from reading and re-reading Gallant’s work lies in the lucid illuminations that arise from her compassionate portrayal of that inescapable junction where the political and the personal are indivisible.”
–Canadian Forum
–Quill & Quire
“We come away from [her stories] both thoughtful and enriched, reflecting on the borderlines that divide folly from dishonesty and evil.”
–Globe and Mail
“A master of the modern short story.”
–Maclean’s
“She stands among the best writers of the century.…If Gallant writes about life’s tragedies, the ravages and aftermaths of wars, of what they do to human lives, she is also full of pleasures, of wonderful comforts, of laughter, of a wonderful capacity to enjoy, to savour, to rejoice in light.”
–Canadian Forum
“Compassionate in a tough-minded, unsentimental way, Gallant embraces humanity in all its foibles, flaws and foolishness.”
–Kitchener- Waterloo Record
“Gallant has chronicled displaced lives with pulse-stopping mastery and has leavened her often painful message with reminders of the strength of human resilience.…Gallant is a master storyteller.”
–London Free Press
“Mavis Gallant writes as the Dutch used to paint, filling each of her canvases, whether large or small, out to the edges with closely observed figures; some of them are amusing and others saddening, and all are bathed in an uncanny light that has nothing to do with the sun or moon but finds its source in an incandescent mind.…She leads us into a world where everything is ablaze and yet cool to the touch – a world of wit and pity mingled, where whatever the writer’s eye falls on is made to yield a bittersweet, nourishing fruit.”
–Brendan Gill
“Mavis Gallant is a master stylist with breathtaking powers of observation.…Gallant’s stories are densely coloured worlds, spare and thorough.…”
–Montreal Gazette
“The satisfaction that comes from reading and re-reading Gallant’s work lies in the lucid illuminations that arise from her compassionate portrayal of that inescapable junction where the political and the personal are indivisible.”
–Canadian Forum
Book Description
In these dazzling stories, Mavis Gallant immerses us in the lives of ordinary people swept up in the upheaval and displacement that followed in the wake of the Second World War. A bitter yet stubbornly pragmatic woman prepares for what promises to be another disastrous Christmas with her mother, her aunt, and her would-be-war-hero uncle. Engaged to another man, a woman travels to Paris with her older lover and his young son. A wife recollects her complicated relationship with the refugee woman who had a brief affair with her husband. Small mercies form the backbone of a friendship between an actress and a police commissioner. A career soldier, now discharged and stranded in France, makes his first adjustments to life as a civilian. In elegant, diamond-sharp prose, Gallant distills the vanities, absurdities, and contradictions that lie at the heart of human behavior and fashions stories of rare power and insight.
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet on Amazon.ca
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
