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A collection of short stories from the author of 'In Transit, 'Overhead in a Balloon' and 'Paris Notebook'. The first four stories feature the French-Canadian Carette family over three generations, while the other seven stories are set in Paris, where the author lived for many years.

Hardcover:

9780747517733 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, June 23, 1994, cover price $16.85 | About this edition: A collection of short stories from the author of 'In Transit, 'Overhead in a Balloon' and 'Paris Notebook'.

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A vintage collection of elegant, concise short stories, most of them set in Paris, displays the talent of one of the world's best short-story writers. Reprint. NYT.

Hardcover:

9780679422136 | Random House Inc, September 1, 1993, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: A collection of ten stories by the author of In Transit blends subtle nuances, an ironic eye for detail, and rich simplicity as she writes about the illusions that individuals create and destroy amid life's complexities.

Paperback:

9780786701438 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, October 1, 1994), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A vintage collection of elegant, concise short stories, most of them set in Paris, displays the talent of one of the world's best short-story writers.

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Product Description: This attractive trade paperback collection of Anne Hébert's later novels includes some of the most accomplished and best loved fiction of her more than sixty-year career, and features an introduction by her dear friend and fellow acclaimed ex-pat writer, Mavis Gallant...read more
By Sheila Fischman (trans), Mavis Gallant (introduced by) and Anne Hebert

Paperback:

9780887846717 | House of Anansi Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This attractive trade paperback collection of Anne Hébert's later novels includes some of the most accomplished and best loved fiction of her more than sixty-year career, and features an introduction by her dear friend and fellow acclaimed ex-pat writer, Mavis Gallant.

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Hardcover:

9781101907634 | Everymans Library, August 9, 2016, cover price $32.00

Product Description: With irony and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of such intricate simplicity and spare complexity that critics have rightly compared her with Henry James and Anton Chekhov. Readers will discover, or rediscover, the pleasure of reading one of the finest writers of our time...read more

Hardcover:

9780679448860 | Random House Inc, September 1, 1996, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Spanning seven decades, from the 1930s to the present day, an anthology presents seventy-five short stories by the author of 'Across the bridge'

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9780375752308 | Modern Library, July 1, 1999, cover price $10.01 | About this edition: With irony and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of such intricate simplicity and spare complexity that critics have rightly compared her with Henry James and Anton Chekhov.

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By Mavis Gallant and Jhumpa Lahiri (introduced by)

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9781590173275 | New York Review of Books, September 29, 2009, cover price $16.95

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Hardcover:

9788426417282 | Italian edition edition (Lumen Editorial, September 30, 2009), cover price $41.95

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The heroine of this bittersweet novel, Shirley Perrigny lives a respectable, but disordered, life and has trouble communicating with, and relating to those about her

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9780839828969 | Reprint edition (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1986), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: The heroine of this bittersweet novel, Shirley Perrigny lives a respectable, but disordered, life and has trouble communicating with, and relating to those about her

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Product Description: One of the world’s great short-story writers emerges with a selection of stories from her past, a trove of hidden treasures.Mavis Gallant moved from Montreal to Paris in 1950 to write short stories for a living. Since then she has continued to write, producing a remarkable body of work...read more

Hardcover:

9780771035388 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, April 7, 2009, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: One of the world’s great short-story writers emerges with a selection of stories from her past, a trove of hidden treasures.

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Product Description: A wonderful collection of biting stories by Mavis Gallant, one of the foremost Canadian short story writers of the 20th century.

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9780771032929 | Emblem Editions, November 30, 2001, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: A wonderful collection of biting stories by Mavis Gallant, one of the foremost Canadian short story writers of the 20th century.

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Product Description: Book by Gallant, Mavis

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9780771597336 | Gage Distribution Co, January 1, 1982, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Book by Gallant, Mavis

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Arranged in three sections, this volume includes a group of wide-ranging tales set in Canada, stories under the heading 'Canadians Abroad,' in which Canadians confront the subtleties and sophistication of Europe, and a final section that brings together the six Linnet Muir stories

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9780394531984 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, March 1, 1985), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Arranged in three sections, this volume includes a group of wide-ranging tales set in Canada, stories under the heading 'Canadians Abroad,' in which Canadians confront the subtleties and sophistication of Europe, and a final section that brings together the six Linnet Muir stories

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9780440336594 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, March 1, 1987), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Arranged in three sections, this volume includes a group of wide-ranging tales set in Canada, stories under the heading 'Canadians Abroad,' in which Canadians confront the subtleties and sophistication of Europe, and a final section that brings together the six Linnet Muir stories

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Product Description: In this, her ninth collection of short stories, the author of "Overhead in a Balloon" attempts to describe with precision the quirks of human nature and the limits of compassion. A host of characters are surveyed as they struggle to transcend the imprisonment of their provisional lives...read more

Hardcover:

9780394575759 | Random House Inc, March 1, 1989, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In this, her ninth collection of short stories, the author of "Overhead in a Balloon" attempts to describe with precision the quirks of human nature and the limits of compassion.

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9780140109177 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 1990), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: In this, her ninth collection of short stories, the author of "Overhead in a Balloon" attempts to describe with precision the quirks of human nature and the limits of compassion.

Product Description: The fascinating, never-before-published diaries of short-story master and literary figurehead Mavis Gallant When Mavis Gallant was fifteen years old, she told a friend that she would live as a writer in Paris and be published by the New Yorker...read more

Hardcover:

9781408844014 | Gardners Books, November 5, 2015, cover price $50.05 | About this edition: The fascinating, never-before-published diaries of short-story master and literary figurehead Mavis Gallant When Mavis Gallant was fifteen years old, she told a friend that she would live as a writer in Paris and be published by the New Yorker.

Paperback:

9781408844021 | Gardners Books, October 22, 2015, cover price $25.35

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Paperback:

9780771032776 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, January 31, 2004, cover price $24.99

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Product Description: Internationally celebrated as among the finest stories written in English today, Mavis Gallant's fiction offers a penetrating and powerful vision of contemporary human relationships in Europe and North America.The Moslem Wife and Other Stories brings together eleven of Gallant's best stories from over three decades...read more

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9780771098918 | New Canadian Library, October 1, 1995, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Internationally celebrated as among the finest stories written in English today, Mavis Gallant's fiction offers a penetrating and powerful vision of contemporary human relationships in Europe and North America.

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Paperback:

9780140152289 | Penguin USA, April 1, 1991, cover price $9.95

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Twelve stories deal with a young woman planning her wedding, an immature newlywed, Americans traveling in postwar Europe, a vacation cruise, a picnic, and a funeral

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9780839828952 | Reprint edition (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1986), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Twelve stories deal with a young woman planning her wedding, an immature newlywed, Americans traveling in postwar Europe, a vacation cruise, a picnic, and a funeral

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Product Description: Excerpt from The Other ParisBY the time they decided what Carol would wear for her wedding (white with white flowers), it was the end of the afternoon. Madame Germaine removed the sketch books, the scraps of net and satin, the stacks of Vogue; she had, already, a professional look of anxiety, as if it could not possibly come out well...read more

Hardcover:

9780836934540 | Reprint edition (Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1955), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Excerpt from The Other ParisBY the time they decided what Carol would wear for her wedding (white with white flowers), it was the end of the afternoon.

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Twelve stories deal with writers, parents, art dealers, tenants, drifters and a manipulative older woman

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9780394545110 | Random House Inc, March 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Twelve stories deal with writers, parents, art dealers, tenants, drifters and a manipulative older woman

Paperback:

9780393305463 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1988), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Twelve stories deal with writers, parents, art dealers, tenants, drifters and a manipulative older woman

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The literary great presents a collection of short stories that focus on the human drama and historical import of Paris and offer a kaleidoscopic portrait of the people and places that create a world within a world. Original.
By Mavis Gallant and Michael Ondaatje (introduced by)

Paperback:

9781590170229 | New York Review of Books, September 1, 2002, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The literary great presents a collection of short stories that focus on the human drama and historical import of Paris and offer a kaleidoscopic portrait of the people and places that create a world within a world.

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Product Description: Mavis Gallant is an undisputed master of the short story whose peerless prose captures the range of human experience while evoking time and place with unequaled skill. This new collection of fifteen of Gallant's stories, edited by best-selling author Michael Ondaatje, gathers the best of her many stories set in Europe and Paris, where Gallant has long lived...read more
By Mavis Gallant, Yuri Rasovsky (narrator) and Lorna Raver (narrator)

CD/Spoken Word:

9780786172627 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 2006), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of short stories that focus on the human drama and historical import of Paris and offer a kaleidoscopic portrait of the people and places that create a world within a world.
9780786163434 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 2006), cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Mavis Gallant is an undisputed master of the short story whose peerless prose captures the range of human experience while evoking time and place with unequaled skill.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786147595 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 2006), cover price $89.95 | About this edition: Mavis Gallant is an undisputed master of the short story whose peerless prose captures the range of human experience while evoking time and place with unequaled skill.

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Paperback:

9780915308606 | Graywolf Pr, October 1, 1984, cover price $6.00

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Hardcover:

9780771033087 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, September 1, 1996, cover price $20.01

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