Recensione:
"The irrefutable master of the short story in English, Mavis Gallant has, among her colleagues, many admirers but no peer. She is the standout. She is the standard-bearer. She is the standard."
— Fran Lebowitz
"There isn't a finer living writer in the English language."
— Books in Canada
"She is a very good writer indeed."
— New York Times
"Mavis Gallant is a marvellously clear-headed observer and a rare phrase-maker."
— Times Literary Supplement
"Boldly styled. . . . [Gallant] manages to reveal so very much of a situation with rending economy. . . . Gallant's great achievement is to reveal the universality of difficult human experience."
— National Post
"Happily, [these] stories have now been born again and they wear remarkably well."
— Toronto Star
"Mavis Gallant writes some of the most superbly crafted and perceptive stories of our time."
— Globe and Mail
"One of the best writers of our language, an artist who is above fad and fashion."
— Saturday Night
"Reading any one of Mavis Gallant's stories is like viewing the entire universe through an electron microscope; in her hands fiction seems infinitely flexible and capacious. And all the complexity of insight, the breadth of understanding, the density of thought and intensity of feeling are delivered with thrilling charm, a thrilling lightness of touch."
— Deborah Eisenberg
L'autore:
Mavis Gallant was born in Montreal in 1922. Her stories, regularly published in The New Yorker and in books such as From the Fifteenth District, Home Truths, and Across the Bridges, have earned her international acclaim and many prizes. She is a Companion of the Order of Canada, and lives in Paris.
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