Mavis Gallant Books In Order

Novels

  1. Green Water, Green Sky (1959)
  2. A Fairly Good Time (1969)

Omnibus

  1. A Fairly Good Time / Green Water, Green Sky (2016)

Collections

  1. Paris Stories (1955)
  2. The Other Paris (1956)
  3. The End Of The World And Other Stories (1974)
  4. The Pegnitz Junction (1974)
  5. From the Fifteenth District (1979)
  6. Home Truths (1981)
  7. My Heart Is Broken (1982)
  8. Overhead in a Balloon (1985)
  9. In Transit (1988)
  10. Across the Bridge (1993)
  11. The Moslem Wife and Other Stories (1994)
  12. The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant (1996)
  13. Varieties of Exile (2003)
  14. Montreal Stories (2004)
  15. Going Ashore (2009)
  16. The Cost of Living (2009)
  17. The Collected Stories (2016)

Plays

  1. What Is to Be Done? (1983)

Non fiction

  1. Paris Notebooks (1986)

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Mavis Gallant Books Overview

Green Water, Green Sky

Through the eyes of four observers, this novel tells the story of the relationship between a mother, Bonnie, and her daughter, Flor. With Venice and Paris as a backdrop, the frailty of the emotions that connect the characters is exposed through Flor’s decline into insanity.

Paris Stories

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 selection of Gallant’s stories, edited by best selling author Michael Ondaatje, gathers the best of her many stories set in Paris, where Gallant has long lived. Here she writes of expatriates and locals, exile and homecoming, and of the illusions of youth and age, offering a kaleidoscopic impression of the world within a world that is Paris. ‘A master of the short story who breaks every rule of the form.’ Booklist ‘Her fiction, never fooled into trying to keep up with history, will last a long time.’ The New York Times Book Review

Overhead in a Balloon

These twelve stories are set in Paris, Mavis Gallant’s adopted home, a city whose nuances she brings to life through a wide range of characters: squabbling writers, bewildered parents, scheming art dealers, beleaguered tenants, and feckless drifters. An artist s widow proves more than a match for Sandor Speck, who hopes to make a name for himself with her late husband s paintings. Literary rivals Prism and Grippes, the prot g s of a rich, misguided American patron, battle across the years. And in the Magdalena stories, a man is caught in the pull of loyalties between his beautiful first wife from a marriage of political conscience, and the woman he truly loves. Elegant, concise, finely textured, these stories never relax the tension between detachment and compassion, understanding and mystery, memory and truth. With remarkable intelligence and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of intricate simplicity and spare complexity. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Across the Bridge

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. NYT.

Varieties of Exile

Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the international story, the fine grained evocation of the quandaries of people who must make their way in the world without any place to call their own. The irreducible complexity of the very idea of home is especially at issue in the stories Gallant has written about Montreal, where she was born, although she has lived in Paris for more than half a century. Varieties of Exile, Russell Banks’s extensive new selection from Gallant’s work, demonstrates anew the remarkable reach of this writer’s singular art. Among its contents are three previously uncollected stories, as well as the celebrated semi autobiographical sequence about Linnet Muir stories that are wise, funny, and full of insight into the perils and promise of growing up and breaking loose.

Going Ashore

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. In 1993, Robertson Davies said: She has written many short stories. My calculation suggests that she has written in this form at least the equivalent of twenty novels. Many of her stories have been anthologized, notably in the 1996 classic Selected Stories, from which hundreds of pages had to be cut for reasons of length. These embarrassment of riches stories are restored in this collection, along with many other neglected treasures from her past. Arranged in the order in which they appeared, they shed light on people living through most of the second half of the 20th century. More important, they show one of the greatest short story writers of our time at work, delineating a series of worlds with dramatic flair, dazzlingly precise language, a wicked wit, and a vivid understanding of the human condition. Even Mavis Gallant s most devoted admirers will find many stories here that they do not know. For newer admirers, this will prove to be a wonderful source of constant pleasure, leaving only the great mystery: How does she do it?

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