Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant For small town scandals

For small town scandals

From the author of such beloved books as James and the Giant Peach

desires one thing above all else: revenge against the British Crown and its system of colonial "humanitarianism

and will become busier still

She finds curious traces of her ancestors in the gardens they once tended

Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant For small town scandalsA collection of over thirty short stories by a great modern writer, now available in a single volume for the first time ever. Mavis Gallant's extraordinary mastery of the short story remains insufficiently recognized. She may be the best writer of stories since the early 1950s prime of John Cheever, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O'Connor, and even in such august company, her work is sui generis. Gallant's short fiction refines the art of the story even