The Cost of Living - Early and Uncollected Stories

Zusatztext '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' Informationen zum Autor Mavis Gallant was born in Montreal in 1922 and worked as a journalist at The Standard before 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 include The Other Paris , The End of the World , Home Truths , In Transit and The Moslem Wife . She is also the author of the novels Green Water, Green Sky and A 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 Gallant are published by Bloomsbury. Vorwort '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 Zusammenfassung 'In this collection, we witness the miracle of a great writer's birth and brisk maturation, a blossoming incapable of withering, and that remains masterful and truthful today' Jhumpa Lahiri

Product details

• Authors: Mavis Gallant, Gallant Mavis
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.11.2010
• EAN: 9781408808498
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-0849-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary