A fairly good time / Mavis Gallant ; introduction by Peter Orner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gallant, Mavis, author.

Series:

New York Review Books classics

New York Review Books Classics

Standardized Title:

Novels. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

376 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, [2016]

Summary:

"An NYRB Classics Original Mavis Gallant's two novels are as memorable as her many short stories. Full of wit, whim, and psychological poignancy, A Fairly Good Time, here accompanied by Green Water, Green Sky, encapsulates Gallant's unparalleled skill as a storyteller. Shirley Perrigny (nee Norrington, then briefly Higgins), the heroin of A Fairly Good Time, is an original. Derided by the Parisians she lives among and chided by her fellow Canadians, this young, widowed girl recently remarried to a French journalist named Philippe is fond of quoting from Jane Austen and Kingsley Amis to describe her life 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 the 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 divorcee, and her daughter, Flor. Uprooted and unmoored, mother and daughter live like itinerants--in Venice, Cannes, and Paris--glamorous and dependent. From this untidy life and the false notes of her mother, Flor attempts to flee, with little hope of escape"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A fairly good time

Green water, green sky.

Contains:

Gallant, Mavis. Novels. Selections

Gallant, Mavis. Green water, green sky.

ISBN:

9781590179871

1590179870

OCLC:

931860314