Usedbook in good condition, no annotations or highlighting. Hardbackedition, blackcloth with bright gold stamped spine lettering. Slight damage anddiscolouring on the front cover and the dustjacket. Spine in greatcondition. Signed by the author on the half-title page, 'To Barneywith every good wish Mavis Gallant Paris 26 March 2007'.

Salealso includes secondary documents: 2012article TheHunger Diaries,(excerpts from Gallant's diary covering March to June 1952) by MavisGallant, tornout of The New Yorker magazine; obituary for Mavis Gallant from TheNew York Times, February 20, 2014; a Mavis Gallant postscript fromThe New Yorker, 2014; interview with Mavis Gallant in Frank AnInternational Journal of Contemporary Writing and Art dated winter1990,

MavisGallant was an acclaimed Canadian short story writer, who left Canadafor Europe in the 1950s.Shesettled in Paris for many years and the city is the setting for manyof her stories. She died in Paris and is buried in the MontparnasseCemetery. Shemade her name writing about the dislocated and the disposessed. Inunsentimental proseshe addresses theisolation, detachment, and fear that afflict rootless North Americanand European expatriates.

TheCollected Stories of Mavis Gallant isagenerous collection of fifty-twostories, selected from across her prolific career by the author andincludes a preface in which she discusses the sources of her art.