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Mavis Gallant Across the Bridge
McClelland & Stewart 1994 0771033079 / 9780771033070 Paperback New
"Brand New Paperback, no spine or cover creases, clean, tight, unmarked, small black remainder mark on the bottom page edges. The 11 stories in this collection demonstrate Gallant's capacious knowledge of human nature, refracted through her ironic views of the battle of the sexes and of the conflict between generations. Penetrating and insightful, these tales reflect the sensibilities of conservative Catholic Montrealers and Parisians coping with the crises of modern life. The husbands and fathers portrayed here prefer their women placid, pretty and without intellectual ambition. And with few exceptions the women are compliant, either out of a general inbred dreaminess or a pathetic lack of opportunity or gumption. The most captivating characters are women who evade this fate. Berthe Carette, whose family is the subject of four interlocked stories, defies the church, remains unwed and independent and sleeps with married men. (Her purposefully helpless, blandly demanding sister Mar... ID: mon0000003229"
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15.67 USD
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Mavis Gallant In transit
Viking 1988 0670821691 / 9780670821693 Unknown Binding Like New
"Hardcover with dust jacket, Like New, clean, tight, unmarked, 1st Edition ID: mon0000002440"
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31.28 USD
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Mavis Gallant Overhead in a Balloon: Twelve Stories of Paris
W W Norton & Co Inc 1988 0393305465 / 9780393305463 Paperback Very Good
"Shoreline Books/W.W. Norton, 1988, cover art by Joanna Zjawinska, light creasing to cover extremites, no reading creases() 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 drifters. An artist’s widow proves more than a match for Sandor Speck, who hopes to make a name for himself with her late husband’s paintings. Literary rivals Prism and Grippes, the protégés of a rich, misguided American patron, battle across the years. And in the Magdalena stories, a man is caught in the pull of loyalties between his beautiful first wife from a marriage of political conscience, and the woman he truly loves. Elegant, concise, finely textured, these stories never relax the tension between detachment and compassion, understanding and mystery, memory and truth. With remarkable intelligence and an unfailing eye ID: mon0000129767"
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7.82 USD
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Mavis Gallant The Pegnitz Junction
Macmillan Company 1982 0771597096 / 9780771597091 Paperback Very Good
"Macmillan of Canada, 1982, Reissue of the 1973 Random House Canada First Edition, tight, light rubbing to extremities, no reading creases ID: mon0000129769"
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9.51 USD
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