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Paris Stories
Paris Stories
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Mavis Gallant
Gallant
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Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. Together they compose a secret history, at once intimate and panoramic, of modern times.
Contributors: Michael Ondaatje |
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Varieties of Exile
Varieties
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Mavis Gallant
Gallant
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Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the international story, the fine-grained evocation of the qualms and quandaries of people who, whether from choice or necessity, have no place to call home.
Contributors: Russell Banks |
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The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories
Cost of Living
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Mavis Gallant
Gallant
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An original collection of stories—many originally published in The New Yorker—from a woman widely considered to be one of the most thrilling practitioners of the genre. Gallant's tales of exile and displacement are admired by Margaret Atwood, Deborah Eisenberg, Michael Ondaatje, Russell Banks, and others.
Contributors: Jhumpa Lahiri |
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Memoirs of Montparnasse
Memoirs of Montparnasse
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John Glassco
Glassco
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1927. Finding college life "depressing...to a point where [he] could not go on" John "Buffy" Glassco decamped for Paris. Forty years later, he reconstructed this memoir à clef of his rollicking youth among the haute bohemians of the day, including Hemingway, Joyce, Djuna Barnes, and Kay Boyle.
Contributors: Louis Begley |
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Life and Fate
Life and Fate
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Vasily Grossman
Grossman
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An epic tale of World War II that interweaves a transfixing account of the battle of Stalingrad with the story of a single middle-class family, the Shaposhnikovs, scattered by fortune from Germany to Siberia.
Contributors: Robert Chandler |
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Everything Flows
Everything Flows
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Vasily Grossman
Grossman
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The final novel from the author of Life and Fate centers on a former political prisoner adjusting to freedom after decades spent in Soviet camps. It is a story of love, survival, honor, and an indictment of the totalitarian state.
Contributors: Robert Chandler , Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, and Anna Aslanyan |
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Sleepless Nights
Sleepless Nights
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Elizabeth Hardwick
Hardwick
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An inspired fusion of fact and invention, this beautifully realized, hard-bitten, lyrical book is not only Elizabeth Hardwick's finest fiction but one of the outstanding contributions to American literature of the last fifty years.
Contributors: Geoffrey O'Brien |
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Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature
Seduction and Betrayal
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Elizabeth Hardwick
Hardwick
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Seduction and Betrayal is a virtuoso performance, a major writer's reckoning with the relations between men and women, women and writing, writing and life.
Contributors: Joan Didion |
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Eustace and Hilda: A Trilogy
Eustace and Hilda: A Trilogy
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L.P. Hartley
Hartley
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The three books gathered together as Eustace and Hilda explore a brother and sister's lifelong relationship. Hilda, the older child, is both self-sacrificing and domineering, as puritanical as she is gorgeous; Eustace is a gentle, dreamy, pleasure-loving boy.
Contributors: Anita Brookner |
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The Lord Chandos Letter and Other Writings
Lord Chandos Letter
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hofmannsthal
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In Hugo von Hofmannsthal's celebrated autobiographical novella a young nobleman reveals to his patron Sir Francis Bacon his particularly modern crisis of spirit.
Contributors: John Banville |
