Author: Mavis Gallant

In stories of astonishing compression and insight, Mavis Gallant wrote of characters severed from their home, exiles disconnected from each other a...

"Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one. Shut the book. Rea...

Mavis Gallant is admired and beloved as one of the masters of the modern short story. Selected from early collections and the New Yorker, where man...

This generous collection of fifty-two stories selected from across her prolific career by the author, is preceded by a preface in which she discuss...