Across the Bridge: Stories - Hardcover

Gallant, Mavis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679422137 ISBN 13: 9780679422136

Verlag: Random House Inc, 1993

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Book by Gallant Mavis

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Reseña del editor:

A collection of ten stories by the author of In Transit blends subtle nuances, an ironic eye for detail, and rich simplicity as she writes about the illusions that individuals create and destroy amid life's complexities. 10,000 first printing.

Biografía del autor:

Born in Montreal in 1922, Mavis Gallant left a career as a leading journalist in that city to move to Paris in 1950 to write.

Since that time she has been publishing stories on a regular basis in The New Yorker, many of which have been anthologized. Her world-wide reputation has been established by books such as From the Fifteenth District and Home Truths, which won the Governor General's Award in 1982. In that same year she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, becoming a Companion of the Order in 1993, the year that she published Across the Bridge and was the recipient of a special tribute at the Harbourfront International Festival of Authors in Toronto. In 1996, The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant was published to univer

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679422137
• ISBN 13: 9780679422136
• Einband: Tapa dura
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