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Home Truths (Identities and Issues in Literature)

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In this collection of sixteen short stories written over an approximately twenty-five-year period, all deal with Canadians at home or abroad; all the stories are autobiographical. Mavis Gallant speaks through the voice of Linnet (also the name of a bird, like Mavis) Muir. Paralleling the author’s life, Linnet, on being graduated from high school in New York, returns to wartime Montreal, marries a Canadian, and eventually finds a job as a reporter. During her stint, Linnet overhears derogatory remarks about the need to hire women because the men are away.

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