| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xix, 887 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Contents |
The Moslem wife -- The four seasons -- The Fenton child -- The other Paris -- Across the bridge -- The latehomecomer -- Señor Pinedo -- By the sea -- When we were nearly young -- The ice wagon going down the street -- The remission -- The captive niece -- Questions and answers -- Ernst in civilian clothes -- An unmarried man's summer -- April fish -- In transit -- O lasting peace -- An alien flower -- The end of the world -- New year's eve -- In the tunnel -- Irina -- Potter -- Baum, Gabriel, 1935- -- Speck's idea -- From the fifteenth district -- The Pegnitz junction -- Luc and his father -- Overhead in a balloon -- Kingdom come -- Forain -- A state of affairs -- Mlle. Dias de Corta -- Scarves, beads, sandals -- The doctor -- Voices lost in snow -- In youth is pleasure -- Between zero and one -- Varieties of exile -- 1933 -- The chosen husband -- From cloud to cloud -- Florida -- A recollection -- The colonel's child -- Rue de Lille -- Lena -- A painful affair -- A flying start -- Grippes and Poche -- In plain sight. |
| Summary |
The 50 stories include The Other Paris, on a woman who decides not to divorce her husband so she has someone to share her memories of Paris, plus an essay by the author in which she describes the influence, on her novels, of her expatriate life. |
| Subject |
Manners and customs -- Fiction.
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories (OCoLC)fst01726740
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Short stories.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Added Title |
Short stories. Selections
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Gallant, Mavis. Short stories. Collected stories of Mavis Gallant. 1st ed. New York : Random House, ©1996 (OCoLC)646970797 |
| ISBN |
0679448861 |
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9780679448860 |
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