Mavis Gallant The Latehomecomer review, recensie en informatie boek met verhalen van de Canadese schrijfster. Op 22 mei 2025 verschijnt bij Pushkin Press Classics de het boek met essential stories van de uit Canada afkomstige schrijfster Mavis Gallant. Hier lees informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Mavis Gallant The Latehomecomer review en recensie
- “Gallant’s stories are their own genre in a way; they are so much richer, so much denser than so many novels… Her body of work is unique and profound; I don’t think there will be another quite like her.” (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- “The irrefutable master of the short story in English, Mavis Gallant has, among her colleagues, many admirers but no peer. She is the standout. She is the standard-bearer. She is the standard.” (Fran Leibowitz)
The Latehomecomer
Essential Stories
- Auteur: Mavis Gallant (Canada)
- Soort boek: verhalen
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Pushkin Press Classics
- Omvang: 288 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van het boek van de Canadese schrijfster Mavis Gallant
In stories of astonishing compression and insight, Mavis Gallant wrote of characters severed from their home, exiles disconnected from each other and from themselves. Tracing the fault lines of the post-war world in the intimate lives of her characters, she could conjure an entire worldview in a telling gesture or passing comment.
This new volume, selected and introduced by Tessa Hadley, collects the finest work from across Gallant’s career. Here are stories of young men returning from wartime internment to changed families, snobbish social climbers haunted by the words of their downtrodden colleagues, and children peering through glass at the secrets and infidelities of their parents. Complex, moving and painfully true, they secure her position among the world’s great short story writers.
Mavis Gallant was born on 11 august 1922 in Montreal, Canada. She worked as a journalist before moving to Europe to devote herself to writing fiction. After traveling extensively she settled in Paris, where she lived until her death, though she never renounced her Canadian citizenship. Starting in 1951, the New Yorker published 116 of her stories. She was the recipient of the 2002 Rea Award for the Short Story and the 2004 PEN/Nabokov Award for lifetime achievement. She died on 18 february 2014 in Paris, France.