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The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant

The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant

by Mavis Gallant, edited and with an introduction by Garth Risk Hallberg

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Mavis Gallant’s extraordinary mastery of the short story remains insufficiently recognized. She may be the best writer of stories since the early-1950s prime of John Cheever, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O’Connor, and even in such august company, her work is sui generis. Gallant’s short fiction refines the art of the story even as it expands the boundaries of what a story can be. Above and beyond that, however, it constitutes a striking, almost avant-garde reduction. To read her is to discover something about the very nature of story: how for better or worse life is caught up in it, and how on the page that common predicament can come to life.

The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant includes more than thirty stories never before gathered into one volume, including “The Accident” and “His Mother” and “An Autobiography” and “Dédé.” With the publication of this book, finally all of this modern master’s fiction will be in print.

 

Additional Book Information

Series: NYRB Classics
ISBN: 9781681378749
Pages: 624
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Praise

It’s a truth not often-enough acknowledged that Mavis Gallant is a wonder of the literary world…. Her voice and sensibility are penetrating, canny, graceful and incisive.
—Joan Frank, The Washington Post

Her body of work is unique and profound; I don't think there will be another quite like her.
—Jhumpa Lahiri

Gallant’s talent is as versatile and witty as it is somber and empathetic.
—John Updike

Line by line, word by word, no one writes with more compression than Gallant. Great short stories are sometimes said to be as rich and as full as novels, but hers are as rich and full as encyclopedias.
—Francine Prose, The New Yorker

Gallant's craft and empathy are always ahead of us. It is only when we reread her that we discover how, before we know it, she will have circled a person, captured a voice, revealed a whole manner of a life in the way a character avoids an issue or discusses a dress.
—Michael Ondaatje

Perhaps . . . her greatest gift, beyond her masterful prose and the delicious bite of her dialogue [is] that she makes you feel that you are remembering something from an earlier life, and when you finish her stories, you must return to your own drab existence.
— Brandon Taylor, Electric Literature

The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant … brings together more than 30 stories by the post-WWII Canadian master, including ‘The Accident’ (1967), about Americans abroad who face death and reinvent themselves.
—David Varno, Publishers Weekly, Fall 2024 Adult Preview longlist

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