Across the Bridge: Stories (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Mavis de Trafford Young
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Time of Work: The 1930’s to the 1980’s
- Setting: Primarily Montreal, Canada, and Paris, France
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Traveling or travelers, France or French people, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, Middle classes, Marriage, Paris, Emotions, Women’s issues, Women, Death or dying, Inheritance or succession, Canada or Canadians, Weddings, Christmas, Rejection
- Locales: France, Paris, France, Montreal, Canada
Mavis Gallant’s Across the Bridge was among the fourteen titles (including six works of fiction) chosen by the editors of The New York Times Book Review for the list of Best Books of 1993. Gallant has been publishing short stories, almost exclusively in The New Yorker, since the late 1940’s. It is difficult, however, to place her in any of the better-known generic traditions of the short story, even those usually described as New Yorker stories. Although Gallant has been compared to Henry James and Anton Chekhov, she is probably more related to Jane...
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