With remarkable perception, Gallant weaves stories of intricate simplicity and spare complexity. With irony and an unfailing eye for telling detail, she cannily observes the illusions that people necessarily create and destroy in the tangle of life.
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About a year after the death of M. Carette, his three survivors-Berthe and her little sister, Marie, and their mother-had to leave the comfortable flat over the furniture store in Rue Saint-Dennis and move to a smaller place. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Uncle Gildas, Uncle Victor, Aunt Rosalie, Cousin Gaston, Aunt Berthe, Parc Lafontaine, Rue Saint-Hubert, Bernard Brunelle, Fall River, Boulevard Pie, Melle Coutard, Old Orchard, Quebec City, Arnaud Pons, Blue Bonnets, Buffalo Hofbrau, City Hall New!
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About a year after the death of M. Carette, his three survivors-Berthe and her little sister, Marie, and their mother-had to leave the comfortable flat over the furniture store in Rue Saint-Dennis and move to a smaller place. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Uncle Gildas, Uncle Victor, Aunt Rosalie, Cousin Gaston, Aunt Berthe, Parc Lafontaine, Rue Saint-Hubert, Bernard Brunelle, Fall River, Boulevard Pie, Melle Coutard, Old Orchard, Quebec City, Arnaud Pons, Blue Bonnets, Buffalo Hofbrau, City Hall New!
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- A Fairly Good Time by Mavis Gallant in Front Matter
- Overhead in a Balloon: Twelve Stories of Paris by Mavis Gallant in Front Matter
- From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant in Front Matter
- In Transit: 20 Stories (King Penguin) by Mavis Gallant in Front Matter
- Home Truths by Mavis Gallant in Front Matter
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- Transient Questions: New Essays on Mavis Gallant (Cross/Cultures 74) by Kristjana Gunnars on 4 pages
- Paris: The Collected Traveler: An Inspired Anthology and Travel Resource by Barrie Kerper on page 227, and page 548
- The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading Writing, and the World of Books by Robertson Davies on page 317, and page 321
- This Is Our Writing by T. F. Rigelhof on page 73, and page 74
- Mr. American by George MacDonald Fraser in Back Matter
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