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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... B5683G
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5.88 USD
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Mavis Gallant In transit
Viking 1988 0670821691 / 9780670821693 Unknown Binding Like New Like New
Hardcover with dust jacket, Like New, clean, tight, unmarked, 1st Edition B7377K
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23.52 USD
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Gallant, Mavis In Transit
Penguin (Non-Classics) 1990 014010917x / 9780140109177 Paperback Like New
Paperback, Like New, clean, tight, unmarked, no spine or cover creases; pages are tanned. A1883G
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6.81 USD
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