Mavis Gallant (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Mavis Gallant’s reputation rests more upon her short fiction than upon her novels. Of her more than one hundred published stories, the great majority have appeared in The New Yorker. Many of them have been collected in books, such as The Other Paris (1956); My Heart Is Broken, containing the novella Its Image on the Mirror (1964); The End of the World and Other Stories (1974); From the Fifteenth District (1979); Home Truths (1981); Overhead in a Balloon (1985); and In Transit (1988). Gallant...

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