The Cost of Living

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The Cost of Living

Early and Uncollected Stories

著者:

Gallant, Mavis

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'In this collection, we witness the miracle of a great writer's birth and brisk maturation, a blossoming incapable of withering, and that remains masterful and truthful today' Jhumpa Lahiri'Gallant is one of the great short-story writers of our time' Michael OndaatjeMavis Gallant is admired and beloved as one of the masters of the modern short story. Selected from early collections and the New Yorker, where many of the author's stories have appeared over the last fifty years, and with an introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri, The Cost of Living reveals a writer coming into her own.The stories span the first twenty years of a long career, from the poise and poignancy of her very first published story, 'Madeleine's Birthday' (1951), to the masterly exploration of the passage of time in the long story 'The Burgundy Weekend' (1971) that appears here in book form for the first time.Gallant's sensibility has always been cosmopolitan and these stories take us from Quebec to postwar Europe, via New York and New England, before settling, like their author, in Paris. Everywhere the book reveals Gallant's subtly penetrating psychological insight, wit and unsentimental sympathy for the excluded and the exiled, not to mention her wonderfully wicked sense of humour.

出版商:

Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Paperbacks

日期:

2011/06/01

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'In this collection, we witness the miracle of a great writer's birth and brisk maturation, a blossoming incapable of withering, and that remains masterful and truthful today' Jhumpa Lahiri 'Gallant is one of the great short-story writers of our time' Michael OndaatjeMavis Gallant is admired and beloved as one of the masters of the modern short story. Selected from early collections and the New Yorker , where many of the author's stories have appeared over the last fifty years, and with an introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri, The Cost of Living reveals a writer coming into her own.The stories span the first twenty years of a long career, from the poise and poignancy of her very first published story, 'Madeleine's Birthday' (1951), to the masterly exploration of the passage of time in the long story 'The Burgundy Weekend' (1971) that appears here in book form for the first time.Gallant's sensibility has always been cosmopolitan and these stories take us from Quebec to postwar Europe, via New York and New England, before settling, like their author, in Paris. Everywhere the book reveals Gallant's subtly penetrating psychological insight, wit and unsentimental sympathy for the excluded and the exiled, not to mention her wonderfully wicked sense of humour.

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Mavis Gallant was born in Montreal, Canada on August 11, 1922. Her parents sent her to live at a French convent when she was 4. When she was 10, her father died from kidney disease. Her mother quickly remarried and moved to New York - leaving her daughter behind. During World War II, Gallant worked in the cutting room at the National Film Board of Canada and as a reporter for the Montreal Standard. She eventually became a columnist and feature writer.

Two of her short stories appeared in the December, 1944, issue of Preview. She published more than 100 stories in The New Yorker beginning in 1951. During her lifetime, she wrote two novels and several short story collections. Her works include Green Water, Green Sky; A Fairly Good Time; Overhead in a Balloon; Across the Bridge; The Pegnitz Junction; Paris Stories; and The Cost of Living. She received several awards including the Governor-General's Award for Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories, the Pen Nabokov Award for career achievement, the Matt Cohen Prize in 2000, and the Rea Award for the Short Story in 2002. In 1981, she was made Officer of the Order of Canada for her contribution to literature that year. She died on February 18, 2014 at the age 91.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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For more than 50 years the Canadian short-story writer Mavis Gallant's communication with the world has been almost exclusively through the fiction pages of the New Yorker. This volume collects the best of her early pieces, including her first published story, "Madeline's Birthday", which introduces the prototype of many confused characters so constantly on the move they are no longer certain where they are: "The days of her lifetime had been spent in so many different places that the first sight of day was, almost by habit, bewildering." The collection meanders from Montreal to Manhattan and takes an austere tour of postwar Europe before ultimately settling, like the author, in Paris; no one has written better about fustian Left Bank hotels, fetid air rising from Metro grilles, and bohemian trollops straight out of Degas paintings: "Girls staring out of the flat canvas who, for two pins . . . would stick out their tongue or spit in your face." As Jhumpa Lahiri says in her introduction: "Never have characters adrift been so effectively anchored." - Alfred Hickling For more than 50 years the Canadian short-story writer Mavis Gallant's communication with the world has been almost exclusively through the fiction pages of the New Yorker. - Alfred Hickling.

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