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Truth to Tell

By: Mavis Cheek

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Nina Porter seems to have it all: husband, home, family and security. But her life turns upside down when a marital row over truthfulness sets her thinking. Isn't she dishonest herself, always playing the good wife? The perfect mother and daughter? The supportive friend? Should she, instead, try to live without the little white lies that support us all? Her husband thinks it can't be done. But he goes away on a business trip. And when a glamorous few days of research in Venice are suddenly on offer, there seems no reason for Nina to refuse them. Or to resist the attentions of the handsome Italian who wants to show her the city. As Nina entangles herself in a web of deceptions, it starts to look as though honesty might not always be the best policy... Mavis Cheek's sparkling new novel is about shaking your life up, striking out and learning to be true to yourself. It's told with all the brio and humour that her readers have come to love.

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Random House

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1446429377

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9781446429372

Parlour Games

By: Mavis Cheek

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Parlour Games

By: Mavis Cheek

A London woman’s perfect life starts to fall to pieces as her fortieth birthday looms in this “delicious, wickedly funny” novel (Library Journal). Celia has an elegant house, a lovely family, and no major worries aside from private schooling and the misplaced zeal of neighborhood-watch vigilantes. But just as she turns forty, the house of cards starts to collapse around her—as her sister and her friends suddenly turn edgy and fickle; a long-time admirer turns into a crude jester; and Celia spies her husband embracing an utterly ghastly woman . . . “Should be welcomed warmly by readers who devour fiction by satiric writers of the Fay Weldon and Patrick Gale variety. Cheek writes with a particularly brittle and dead-on wit that skewers her subjects, English yuppies who have contrived comfortable lives in the just-right suburb of Bedford Park . . . Cheek’s command of absurd situations and her razor-sharp dialogue is dazzling—this is the stuff of which the finest English screwball comedy films used to be made. Even the minor players, from the nosy, haughty cleaning lady to assorted friends and lovers, are richly drawn and perfectly cast.” —Publishers Weekly “A very funny book—one of those rare books that make you laugh out loud. Imagine the wicked social observation of Jilly Cooper mixed with the needle wit of Fay Weldon and you’ll get the picture.” —New Woman

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Ipso Books

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1504054180

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9781504054188

Sleeping Beauties

By: Mavis Cheek

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Sleeping Beauties

By: Mavis Cheek

This “wonderfully funny” novel goes behind the scenes at a British beauty salon (Vogue). Tabitha’s Beauty Parlour is a haven. The women who cross its portals enter a gentle, perfumed world, hoping for a touch of transformation. For Tabitha, the power of being beautiful—or at least at little less dumpy and dowdy—is the intangible, invaluable product she has to offer her customers. But when Chloe, Tabitha’s trainee, sets out to prove that she can give her clients the makeover of a lifetime, the quest for feminine perfection achieves hilarious consequences. “A sharply observed social satire . . . wacky yet profound . . . Be wary, this book won’t do much for your laughter lines.” —Chic “A clever and funny novel.” —The Times (London)

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Ipso Books

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1504053583

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9781504053587

Yesterday's Houses

By: Mavis Cheek

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Yesterday's Houses

By: Mavis Cheek

From the bestselling author of Janice Gentle Gets Sexy and Mrs Fytton's Country Life comes a tragicomic tale of one woman's journey to independence via seven houses, three men and many disappointments...

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Faber & Faber

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0571224245

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9780571224241

Mrs. Fytton's Country Life

By: Mavis Cheek

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Mrs. Fytton's Country Life

By: Mavis Cheek

Angela Fytton -- wonderwife and supermother -- has been unceremoniously dumped by her husband. Like many a good wife before her, she has been replaced for a younger model. Now, divorced but determined, she rediscovers the iron in her soul and decides to fight. She moves to the country, leaving her entirely selfish teenage children with their father and his sweet new bride, and waits. One day, she knows, her husband will return. Meanwhile, she yields herself up to the notion that country life is pure and good and country people are next to angels -- and finds that this is very far from the truth....

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Macmillan

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0312302959

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9780312302955

Varieties of Exile

By: Mavis Gallant

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Varieties of Exile

By: Mavis Gallant

Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the international story, the fine-grained evocation of the quandaries of people who must make their way in the world without any place to call their own. The irreducible complexity of the very idea of home is especially at issue in the stories Gallant has written about Montreal, where she was born, although she has lived in Paris for more than half a century. Varieties of Exile, Russell Banks's extensive new selection from Gallant's work, demonstrates anew the remarkable reach of this writer's singular art. Among its contents are three previously uncollected stories, as well as the celebrated semi-autobiographical sequence about Linnet Muir—stories that are wise, funny, and full of insight into the perils and promise of growing up and breaking loose.

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New York Review of Books

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1590174232

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9781590174234

Home Truths

By: Mavis Gallant

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Home Truths

By: Mavis Gallant

In Home Truths, Mavis Gallant draws us into the tricky labyrinth of human behaviour, while offering readers her unique, clear-eyed vision of Canadians both at home and abroad. Ranging in time and place from small-town Quebec during the Depression, to Geneva and Paris in the 1950s, to contemporary Vancouver Island, these stories explore the remorseless cruelty of children, the tensions that affect all families, the dangerous but endearing naïveté of young girls in love with Europe, and the terrible distances that divide people who love each other. And in the celebrated “Linnet Muir” stories, Gallant draws on her own experiences to portray a sensitive and alarmingly perceptive young girl growing up in Montreal in the 1930s and 1940s. Incisive, darkly humorous, and compassionate, Home Truths is a vibrant collection of stories from one of our finest writers.

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Emblem Editions

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1551996286

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9781551996288

Love of a Stranger

By: Gretchen Mavis Turney

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Love of a Stranger

By: Gretchen Mavis Turney

A warm, inspirational book filled with unconditional love, supreme challenge, mystery, resentment, agape love, jealousy, forgiveness, and romance. Years had already passed after Jennifer killed a gangster at her home the day her husband, Roman, was tragically killed. After those traumatic experiences that changed her life forever, she is now ready to face the world with her daughter, Katie. Since Roman's death, his best friend Brinkley has devotedly watched over Jennifer and Katie and feels as if he is becoming part of the family. But to Jennifer's surprise, Van comes into the scene. Mysterious, deep, but with a good heart, he wins the heart of Katie and Jennifer. There are many things about Van that seem familiar to Jennifer and she finds it intriguing and interesting to find out who he really is. As time goes by, their relationship blooms despite Brinkley's warning for Van to stay away from the girls. Will Jennifer fall in love with Van but who really is this man? Suspenseful, captivating, and inspiring, Love of a Stranger will make you fall in love again and again.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1453529373

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9781453529379

A Fairly Good Time and Green Water, Green Sky

By: Mavis Gallant

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A Fairly Good Time and Green Water, Green Sky

By: Mavis Gallant

AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL Mavis Gallant’s novels are as memorable as her renowned short stories. Full of wit and psychological poignancy, A Fairly Good Time, here with Green Water, Green Sky, encapsulates Gallant’s unparalleled skill as a storyteller. Shirley Perrigny (née Norrington, then briefly Higgins), the heroine of A Fairly Good Time, is an original. Derided by the Parisians she lives among and chided by her fellow Canadians, this young widow—recently remarried to a French journalist named Philippe—is fond of quoting Jane Austen and Kingsley Amis and of using her myopia as a defense against social aggression. As the fixed points in Shirley’s life begin to recede—Philippe having apparently though not definitively left—her freewheeling, makeshift, and self-abnegating ways come to seem an aspect of devotion to her fellow man. Could this unreliable protagonist be the unwitting heroine of her own story? Green Water, Green Sky, Gallant’s first novel, is a darker tale of the fractured family life of Bonnie McCarthy, an American divorcée, and her daughter, Flor. Uprooted and unmoored, mother and daughter live like itinerants—in Venice, Cannes, and Paris—glamorous and dependent. With little hope of escape, Flor attempts to flee this untidy life and the false notes of her mother.

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New York Review of Books

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1590179889

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9781590179888

The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant

Introduction by Francine Prose

By: Mavis Gallant

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The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant

Introduction by Francine Prose

By: Mavis Gallant

This generous collection of fifty-two stories, selected from across her prolific career by the author, includes a preface in which she discusses the sources of her art. A widely admired master of the short story, Mavis Gallant was a Canadian-born writer who lived in France and died in 2014 at the age of ninety-one. Her more than one hundred stories, most published in The New Yorker over five decades beginning in 1951, have influenced generations of writers and earned her comparisons to Anton Chekhov, Henry James, and George Eliot. She has been hailed by Michael Ondaatje as “one of the great story writers of our time.” With irony and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of spare complexity, often pushing the boundaries of the form in boldly unconventional directions. The settings in The Collected Stories range from Paris to Berlin to Switzerland, from the Italian Riviera to the Côte d’Azur, and her characters are almost all exiles of one sort or another, as she herself was for most of her expatriate life. The wit and precision of her prose, combined with her expansive view of humanity, provide a rare and deep reading pleasure. With breathtaking control and compression, Gallant delivers a whole life, a whole world, in each story.

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Everyman's Library

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1101907649

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9781101907641

The Invisible Companion

By: Mavis Darling

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The Invisible Companion

By: Mavis Darling

When Markus Rodriguez—a man of inexhaustible, manic, palpable energy—was officially diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, he, his wife, and children thought their world had come to an end. They had no idea of the meaning of the disease or what it entailed, and as a matter of fact, they had never heard of such an illness. After all, before they traveled from Nassau, Bahamas, to the Brain Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida, for a second opinion, Markus was told that his condition had everything to do with the fact that he was aging. He was sixty-seven years old at the time. He owed his peace of mind in dealing with the condition to his fervent belief in God to help him deal with the progression and severity of the illness, his wife for her constant support, and his children. His family was the driving force in his acceptance of this debilitating condition. Nevertheless, he questioned God on several occasions, but at the end of each encounter with God, he was gently reminded of prophets and Bible persons who were sorely challenged and that he was not better than them. After several months, he stopped questioning why him and began to ask why not him. He was a successful businessman, he enjoyed everything he dealt with, and he was very generous to his fellowmen. He feared the eventuality that he would increasingly become dependent on his wife and children and not being able to continue with his business ventures. The ultimate challenges he faced, he turned them into opportunities and found himself advocating for a disease he so despised. He told everyone he knew everything he found out about the condition.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1984550578

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9781984550576

Every Scar Tells a Story

By: Victoria K. Mavis,Angelo R. Senese

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Every Scar Tells a Story

By: Victoria K. Mavis,Angelo R. Senese

Fifty-four-year-old Liz Harris is smart, talented, and nearly broke. In desperation, she turns to life coach Rhonda Jackson, whose business is thriving, even though her personal life in not. Can Rhonda help—or will she be stopped as others have by Liz’s halting gait? Unnerved by her visceral reaction to Liz’s disability, Rhonda pushes beyond her own tragic past as they launch a mutual journey to rise above the hurdles to their success. As Liz starts to resolve her inner conflicts: feelings of rejection, self-doubt, and inadequacy stemming from a childhood accident that left her reliant on a metal crutch to walk; she identifies events that strained the relationship with her adopted parents, doomed her marriage, and stalled her career. However, she’s unwilling to reveal the secret that can set her free, because doing so could irreparably damage the relationship with her sister, Carla. This denial halts her work with Rhonda and breaks their relationship. Accompanied only by Steve, her forearm crutch, Liz sets out on a sixteen-hundred-mile trip to lay to rest the horror of her childhood trauma, hoping to end the haunting nightmares and transform her innermost resentment for the life she dreamed of—but could never have due to her disability, into one filled with peace, self-fulfillment, and promise for the future. Inspired by life, the characters share insights to overcome daily adversities that inadvertently or unconsciously place roadblocks for success through one woman’s journey to triumph over a crippling childhood trauma that caused her lifetime disability, thus unleashing her true potential—and possibly yours!

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Archway Publishing

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148089396X

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9781480893962

Overhead in a Balloon

Twelve Stories of Paris

By: Mavis Gallant

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Overhead in a Balloon

Twelve Stories of Paris

By: Mavis Gallant

The City of Lights, as seen by one of its greatest citizens and admirers Paris has been inspiring writers for centuries. Its neighborhoods and people make for a never-ending flow of potential stories. Mavis Gallant, Canadian by birth but Parisian since the 1950s, has created an incredibly loving and accomplished tribute to her adoptive home. In this collection, Gallant illustrates the surprising sense of interconnectedness that comes from living in a big city, as characters from one story drift into another, disappearing only to pop up again much later. The book’s longest work depicts a wily art dealer looking to revive his business by “discovering” an obscure painter, despite the fact that the artist is both Canadian and no longer living. Other tales depict the experiences of the Pugh family, as its American relatives attempt to connect with their French roots. Overhead in a Balloon weaves together the threads and experiences of a multitude of Parisians, each story suffused with Gallant’s feel for detail and atmosphere.

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Open Road Media

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1497685117

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9781497685116

Across the Bridge

Stories

By: Mavis Gallant

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Across the Bridge

Stories

By: Mavis Gallant

A New York Times Best Book of the Year: Short stories centered around a French Canadian family that relocates to Paris in the years before WWII. One of the greatest strengths of Mavis Gallant’s writing is her ability to distill a character’s emotions into a simple moment—a lingering glance or an unuttered word. Her flair for detail is everywhere in evidence in Across the Bridge, studies of Montreal and Paris over the last century. The primary focus of this story collection is the Carettes, a family of French Canadians who relocate to Paris before World War II. The two daughters, Marie and Berthe, could not be more different: Marie is traditional and quiet while Berthe is strong willed and open minded. But as they grow together, the two learn how much they truly have in common. Accompanying these stories of the Carettes are tales of growth and isolation at home and abroad, including one of a rebellious French-speaking Canadian girl growing up in the Anglophone area of the city. Another entry is focused on an anthropologist who, on a trip to a small country, finds a group of people who speak a language no one has ever heard before. Unfortunately, when he announces his discovery, no one believes him. Gallant writes “elegant, witty tales of place and person” and cannily observes small domestic moments as her characters create and destroy the illusions in their lives (Library Journal).

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1497685087

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The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant

By: Mavis Gallant

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The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant

By: Mavis Gallant

The ultimate collection of stories by 'one of the great short-story writers of our time' (Michael Ondaatje) 'Gallant is funny, exacting and stern - in fact, an old fashioned moralist ... luminescent, subtle and lasting, Gallant's chronicles of internal and external exile are a fitting tribute to a diasporic century' Guardian 'Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one. Shut the book. Read something else. Come back later. Stories can wait' Mavis Gallant In 1950, THE NEW YORKER accepted one of Mavis Gallant's short stories for publication and she has since become the one of the most accomplished and respected short story writers of her time. Gallant is an undisputed master whose peerless prose captures the range of human experience in her sweeping portraits set in Europe in the second half of the last century. An expatriate herself, her stories deal with exile, displacement, of love and of estranged emotions, but they are never conventional. This collection of fifty-two stories, written between 1953 and 1995, is timeless, to be savoured and re-read.

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A&C Black

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1408858339

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9781408858332

For Better Or for Worse

Divorce Reconsidered

By: Mavis E Hetherington,John Kelly

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For Better Or for Worse

Divorce Reconsidered

By: Mavis E Hetherington,John Kelly

Debunking popular wisdom on the devastating psychological and social effects of divorce, eminent psychologist Mavis Hetherington presents a more nuanced picture. This unprecedented look at our divorce-prone society concludes that the aftermath of divorce need not be a prescribed pathway of dissolution but can be one of healing and ultimate fulfillment. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393324133

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9780393324136

Montreal Stories

By: Mavis Gallant

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Montreal Stories

By: Mavis Gallant

“In Gallant’s stories, the conflicts, obsessions, and concerns—the near-impossibility of gaining personal freedom without inflicting harm on those whom you love and who love you; the difficulty of forgiving a cruel and selfish parent without sentimentalizing him; or the pain of failed renewal—are limned with an affectionate irony and generated by a sincere belief in their ultimate significance, significance not just for the characters who embody them, but for the author and, presumably, the reader as well.” —Russell Banks, from his introduction Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the international story, the fine-grained evocation of the quandaries of people who must make their way in the world without any place to call their own. The complexity of the very idea of home is alive in the stories Gallant has written about Montreal. Montreal Stories, Russell Banks’s new selection from Gallant’s work, demonstrates anew the remarkable reach of this writer’s singular art. Among its contents are three previously unpublished stories, as well as the celebrated semi-autobiographical sequence about Linnet Muir—stories that are wise, funny, and full of insight into the perils and promise of growing up and breaking loose.

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McClelland & Stewart

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1551996294

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Blind Love

By: Mavis Francis

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Blind Love

By: Mavis Francis

Its about a blind girl Ashley and her dog lucky was taking a walk on the beach when out of the darkness she heard a voice calling out for help. Surprised by the voice she got frightened until the stranger assures her who he was and he was hurt and stranded. This man Steve Lowe was a detective who was on a case and had witnessed a murder. The journey between these two people was a dangerous from the moment they met. As they travel to the dangerous part, they found each other and fell in love.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1479778982

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Going Ashore

By: Mavis Gallant

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Going Ashore

By: Mavis Gallant

One of the world’s great short story writers emerges with a selection of stories from her past, a trove of hidden treasures. Mavis Gallant moved from Montreal to Paris in 1950 to write short stories for a living. Since then she has continued to write, producing a remarkable body of work. In 1993, Robertson Davies said, “She has written many short stories. My calculation suggests that she has written in this form at least the equivalent of twenty novels.” Many of her stories have been anthologized, notably in the 1996 classic Selected Stories, from which hundreds of pages had to be cut for reasons of length. These “embarrassment of riches” are restored in this collection, along with many other neglected treasures from her past. Arranged in the order in which they appeared, they shed light on people living through most of the second half of the twentieth century. More important, they show one of the greatest short story writers of our time at work, delineating a series of worlds with dramatic flair, dazzlingly precise language, a wicked wit, and a vivid understanding of the human condition.

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Emblem Editions

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155199366X

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The Cost of Living

Early and Uncollected Stories

By: Mavis Gallant

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The Cost of Living

Early and Uncollected Stories

By: Mavis Gallant

A New York Review Books Original Mavis Gallant is renowned as one of the great short-story writers of our day. This new gathering of long-unavailable or previously uncollected work presents stories from 1951 to 1971 and shows Gallant's progression from precocious virtuosity, to accomplished artistry, to the expansive innovatory spirit that marks her finest work. "Madeleine's Birthday," the first of Gallant's many stories to be published in The New Yorker, pairs off a disaffected teenager, abandoned by her social-climbing mother, with a complacent middle-aged suburban housewife, in a subtly poignant comedy of miscommunication that reveals both characters to be equally adrift. "The Cost of Living," the extraordinary title story, is about a company of strangers, shipwrecked over a chilly winter in a Parisian hotel and bound to one another by animosity as much as by unexpected love. Set in Paris, New York, the Riviera, and Montreal and full of scrupulously observed characters ranging from freebooters and malingerers to runaway children and fashion models, Gallant's stories are at once satirical and lyrical, passionate and skeptical, perfectly calibrated and in constant motion, brilliantly capturing the fatal untidiness of life.

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1590174216

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9781590174210

The Moslem Wife and Other Stories

By: Mavis Gallant

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The Moslem Wife and Other Stories

By: Mavis Gallant

Internationally celebrated as among the finest stories written in English today, Mavis Gallant's fiction offers a penetrating and powerful vision of contemporary human relationships in Europe and North America. The Moslem Wife and Other Stories brings together eleven of Gallant's best stories from over three decades. These embody the beauty, irony, and compassion of a master writer's fictional universe. Amid the complex perceptions of the past that haunt her characters, Gallant deploys her sharp comic eye to superb effect: in the figures who move through her stories, we catch troubling, fleeting glimpses of our own lives. Selected and with an afterword by Mordecai Richler.

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New Canadian Library

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1551996324

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9781551996325

The New Kid

By: Mavis Jukes

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The New Kid

By: Mavis Jukes

Newbery Honor Award—winning author Mavis Jukes is back with a lovable new character named Carson. His father moves him to a new town in Northern California, where he'll be the new kid in class—friendless and alone, except for his beloved stuffed moose (named Moose, of course). As Carson settles into his new surroundings, a series of delightful mishaps start to occur: the class pet, a rat named Mr. Nibblenose, gets lost to surprising results; the culprit of a mysterious lunch theft might actually be something that's not human at all; and when his beloved Moose goes missing, Carson makes his first new non-stuffed animal friend. Told with childlike charm and wit, The New Kid is perfect for newly independent readers.

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Knopf Books for Young Readers

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0375896317

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9780375896316

Paris Stories

By: Mavis Gallant

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Paris Stories

By: Mavis Gallant

A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorkerfor close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, "radically reshaped the short story for decade after decade." Michael Ondaatje's new selection of Gallant's work gathers some of the most memorable of her stories set in Europe and Paris, where Gallant has long lived. 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.

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New York Review of Books

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1590174224

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9781590174227

Bridges Instead of Walls

The Story of Mavis Staples

By: Mavis Staples,Carole Boston Weatherford

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The Story of Mavis Staples

By: Mavis Staples,Carole Boston Weatherford

Legendary singer and Civil Rights activist Mavis Staples has teamed with an award-winning children’s poet to share her rousing life story in this spectacular picture book. At 85, Mavis Staples is still singing in front of large audiences and sharing her message of love, faith, and justice. She’s been performing since age eight as part of her family’s gospel group The Staple Singers, and has become one of America’s most admired musicians, with multiple Grammys, a Kennedy Center Honor, and a place in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. But Mavis has been more than a thrilling singer; she has also stood alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., at numerous Civil Rights protests where her voice was a rallying cry to the country. Now she and acclaimed author Carole Boston Weatherford bring her story and her inspiring message to young people in this poetic, illuminating book, beautifully illustrated by Steffi Walthall.

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Penguin

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059362470X

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9780593624708

Blackberries in the Dark

By: Mavis Jukes

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Blackberries in the Dark

By: Mavis Jukes

Austin's visit to his grandmother's is the first since Grandpa died. Austin notices Grandpa's things but feels the emptiness of his absence. This spare story vividly captures the emotions of painful times and shows how they ease with sharing and remembering. Boy and grandfather were close, but boy and grandmother seem destined to be just as close, with Grandpa's memory to bind them. Poignant and perceptive, this has impressive resonance, and readers won't easily shed its warm afterglow."--(starred) Booklist.

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Yearling

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0679865705

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The Hidden Library of Tanith Lee

Themes and Subtexts from Dionysos to the Immortal Gene

By: Mavis Haut

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The Hidden Library of Tanith Lee

Themes and Subtexts from Dionysos to the Immortal Gene

By: Mavis Haut

Despite the great diversity of settings in Tanith Lee's novels--from the pre-historic origins of Christianity to robot-dominated futurescapes--certain underlying thoughts and references appear consistently. While adhering formally to many of the writing conventions of the fantasy, science fiction and horror genres, Lee also engages the meaning of myths of the Greeks (particularly Dionysos), Egyptians, Persians and Indians. The dynamics of magic, alchemy, shamanism, Gnosticism and reincarnation also surface frequently. This critical work examines Lee's highly original applications of such themes and subtexts. Less prominent themes are also covered, as well as her insights into human nature, her humor, her numerous tributes to literature, her comments on writing, her games with space, time and language, and her preoccupation with detail and background. Also included is an interview with Tanith Lee, a bibliography of Lee's work, a general bibliography, and an index.

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McFarland

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0786483687

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The Santa Klaus Murder

By: Mavis Doriel Hay

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The Santa Klaus Murder

By: Mavis Doriel Hay

When it comes to Christmas stories, one typically thinks of those that embody the spirit of the season, such as Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. The Yuletide-themed murder mystery is not usually the first thing that comes to mind. A classic country-house murder mystery, The Santa Klaus Murder begins with Aunt Mildred declaring that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gathering at their country residence Flaxmere. So when Sir Osmond Melbury, the family patriarch, is discovered--by a guest dressed as Santa Klaus--with a bullet in his head on Christmas Day, the festivities are plunged into chaos. Nearly every member of the party stands to reap some sort of benefit from Sir Osmond's death, but Santa Klaus, the one person who seems to have every opportunity to fire the shot, has no apparent motive. Various members of the family have their private suspicions about the identity of the murderer, but in the midst of mistrust, suspicion, and hatred, it emerges that there was not one Santa Klaus but two.

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eBookIt.com

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1456636669

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Sleeping Beauties

By: Mavis Cheek

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By: Mavis Cheek

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Ipso Books

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1504053583

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The Lovers of Pound Hill

By: Mavis Cheek

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The Lovers of Pound Hill

By: Mavis Cheek

Molly Bonner is an archaeologist who has come to discover the truth behind the village of Lufferton Boney's greatest and most famous resident, the giant (and slightly obscene) Gnome, a fertility symbol etched into the face of Pound Hill. In the process, she shakes up the lives and loves of the colourful characters he looks down upon.

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Random House

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009954749X

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Parlour Games

By: Mavis Cheek

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By: Mavis Cheek

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Ipso Books

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1504054180

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Three Men on a Plane

By: Mavis Cheek

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Three Men on a Plane

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A single mom finds her romantic life is up in the air—and getting turbulent—in this “intelligent, hard-nosed comedy” (The Observer). Pamela Pryor is free. Her son has, at last, left home. Her business is thriving. But she’s feeling strangely restless, and there’s the small matter of the missing Mr. Right. There have been three significant men in her life: her ex-husband, Peter; Douglas, the style guru turned perfect post-divorce romance; and Dean, the younger man as wildly handsome as he is completely inappropriate. All three are suddenly back in Pamela’s life and, as luck and air travel would have it, about to board the same flight. Pamela felt she was ready for a new man, but not three, not now . . . and not on one plane. “An ingenious story-line affording ample scope for the sly humor at which Mavis Cheek excels.” —The Observer “A marvellous writer whose characters are beautifully drawn, whose observations on the absurd behavior of the middle aged invariably hit the mark and who makes you laugh out loud.” —Daily Mail

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1504059220

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Dog Days

By: Mavis Cheek

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Dog Days

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A newly divorced mom fends off her matchmaking friends—with unexpected results—in this novel from a “Jane Austen in modern dress” (The Boston Globe). Patricia’s marriage of eleven years is over. Aside from her doubts about the arrival of Brian, a dog who has become a father-substitute for her ten-year-old daughter, Patricia is more than ready for a fulfilled life as a single parent. But then the matchmaking begins. Even her most trusted friends are determined to provide her with potential lovers, all of whom she skillfully manages to avoid—that is until Roland, who is deeply unsuitable, arrives on the scene . . . “A witty, enjoyable novel that will appeal to readers who like their fiction sharp and British.” —Library Journal “Taking dead aim at complacency and pretension, Mavis Cheek is Jane Austen in modern dress.” —The Boston Globe “[A] stylish, engaging comedy of manners . . . The scenes leading up to the denouement are unpredictably hilarious.” —Publishers Weekly “A devilishly funny social satirist.” —Daily Mail

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