From Publishers Weekly
Twenty stories that first appeared in the New Yorker' s golden era of the 1950s and '60s are gathered for the first time in this brilliant collection. Gallant ( Home Truths ; Paris Notebooks ) is one of the great short story writers of our time, and these three groups of stories--"Parents and Children," "Youth, Pursuit and Various Entanglements" and "Relatives, Friends and Adult Confusion"--represent the extraordinary diversity of her endlessly revealing fictions. Her details are always entertaining. "I liked it when we first came over to France and lived right in Versailles," reminisces one of her odd characters in "Malcolm and Bea." "It was more like home." But while the odd remark or the telling observation polishes the surfaces of these stories, it is the author's unique summoning of those truth-telling moments at the intersections of life that charge them with significance. Gallant is a quietly dazzling writer, and it is tempting to pronounce this volume perfect.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
