The Collected Stories — Mavis Gallant

Mavis Gallant's 52 stories, mostly published in The New Yorker between 1950 and 2001, constitute one of the greatest bodies of short fiction in the English language. A Canadian expatriate living in Paris, Gallant wrote about displacement, exile, the failure of understanding between generations, and the particular loneliness of intelligent women in confining social structures with a precision and irony unmatched in contemporary short fiction.