Mavis Gallant

Mavis Gallant Collected Stories

Buch

This generous collection of fifty-two stories selected from across her prolific career by the author, is preceded by a preface in which she discusses the sources of her art.With irony and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of spare complexity, often pushing the boundaries of the form in boldly unconventional directions. The settings in the COLLECTED STORIES range from Paris to Berlin to Switzerland, from the Riviera to the Côte d'Azur, and her characters are almost all exiles of one sort or another, as she herself was the most of her expatriate life. The wit and precision of her prose, combined with her expansive… Mehr

CHF 28.50

Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)

Versandfertig innerhalb 1-3 Werktagen

V105: Folgt in ca. 15 Arbeitstagen

Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-84159-373-9
EAN: 9781841593739
Produktnummer: 25930046
Verlag: Everyman
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 1096 S.
Masse: H14.0 cm x B21.4 cm x D5.0 cm 862 g
Gewicht: 862
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

A widely admired master of the short story, Mavis Gallant was a Canadian-born writer who lived in France and died in 2014 at the age of ninety-one. Her more than one hundred stories, most published in The New Yorker over five decades beginning in 1951 have influenced generations of writers and earned her comparisons to Anton Chekhov, Henry James, and George Eliot. She has been hailed by Michael Ondaatje as one of the great story writers of our time.