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Cargando... The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories (New York Review Books Classics) (edición 2009)por Mavis Gallant
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. So, so glad that I saw this while browsing not buying at Galignani and decided to put a hold on it via SPL. Because I didn't know what I was missing by having never read Mavis Gallant before. She's lovely and crisp and completely ahead of the curve. I cannot wait to read more. ( ) Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I had never heard of Mavis Gallant before receiving a copy of this book, and I'm so glad I got a copy. Gallant's short stories are about people after World War II, mostly in Europe. She has shown me a time and place that I never would have been able to experience otherwise. Her characters all are adrift in the world in some way. This isn't the book to read when you want to be jollied out of a bad mood. Read it when you want to luxuriate in a rainy day. Her use of the English language and the details she chooses paint a remarkably vivid picture. I really enjoyed the short-story format. It's a fast read, but you can put it down and pick it back up again for another story without losing anything. I am a huge Mavis Gallant fan and snapped up this new collection of her stories, mostly early ones, as soon as it was released. In any collection, some stories are better than others, but almost nobody has better insight into people who are in some way estranged from their families, the world, their relationships than Gallant. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Very good short stories. Worth the time to take and read it. Hope to read more of this author's books in the futureYou will enjoy sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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 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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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