Paris Stories, Mavis Gallant
Paris Stories, Mavis Gallant
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Paris Stories

Author: Mavis Gallant

Narrator: Lorna Raver and Yuri Rasovsky

Unabridged: 16 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories


Synopsis

Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. This collection of fifteen of Gallants best stories comprise a secret history, both intimate and panoramic, of modern times, offering a kaleidoscopic impression of the world within a world that is Paris.

About Mavis Gallant

Mavis Gallant was born in Montreal in 1922 and worked as a journalist at The Standard before moving to Europe to devote herself to writing fiction. After traveling extensively, she settled in Paris, where she still resides. She was first published in the New Yorker in 1951.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bilal on September 20, 2018

Kitabın yazarı günlük okunması gereken öykü adedinin bir ile sınırlandırılmasını istemiş. Bu isteğe genelde uymama rağmen iki ya da üç öğün yaptığım oldu. Hem boş zamanım çoktu, hem açlığımı gidermem lazımdı, hem de kimi öyküler diğerlerine göre kısaydı. Yoksa yazarın isteğine katılmamak mümkün deği......more

Goodreads review by Mevsim on March 06, 2019

Bazı öykü kitaplarını tek seferde okumuyorum. Öyle daha anlamlı oluyor. Kitabın hissi, tadı sürüp gidiyor. Zaman zaman içinden bir öykü açıp okumayı sevdiğim kitaplardan biri Paris Öyküleri de. Hem ilk bahsettiğim sebepten hem de çok fazla öykü olduğu için içinde. Ve bu öykülerin çoğuna kısa öykü de......more

Goodreads review by Liz on November 24, 2009

Gallant is one of the few writers, like Proust and Nabokov, whom I approach with utter delight and dread. Delight because her writing is so beautifully crafted and each phrase a treat; dread because as a writer reading her is so intimidating one feels that, not only could one never hope to write a s......more

Goodreads review by Erik on July 10, 2019

Excellent.......more

Goodreads review by Janet on July 11, 2019

I've worked my way through half of these stories--had to take it back to the library. I'm sure I will check the rest out eventually--the stories linger. Fascinating and somewhat astringent tales of people we would now call expats, set during the fifties and sixties. Brittle and infused with a sense......more