| Varieties of Exile Contributor(s): Gallant, Mavis (Author), Banks, Russell (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1590170601 ISBN-13: 9781590170601 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2003 Annotation: The complexity and uncertainty of the idea of home are very much at issue in the stories Gallant writes about Canada, her home country. Included in this new collection are the celebrated Linnet Muir stories, wonderfully wise and funny investigations into the difficulties of growing up and breaking free. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2003020764 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.04" W x 8" (0.75 lbs) 324 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |