Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1993. Book. Illus. by Edwin Holgate;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (ix) 198 pp. Quarter-bound in beige cloth on pale green boards with the author's initials blind stamped on the front panel; lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The dustjacket features Ludivine by Edwin Holgate, courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada. This story collection contains: 1933; The Chosen Husband; From Cloud to Cloud; Florida; Dede; Kingdom Come; Forain; A State of Affairs; Mlle. Dias de Corta; The Fenton Child; and Across the Bridge..

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Born in Montreal in 1922, Mavis Gallant left a career as a leading journalist in that city to move to Paris in 1950 to write. Since that time she has been publishing stories on a regular basis in The New Yorker , many of which have been anthologized. Her world-wide reputation has been established by books such as From the Fifteenth District and Home Truths , which won the Governor General’s Award in 1982. In that same year she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, becoming a Companion of the Order in 1993, the year that she published Across the Bridge and was the recipient of a special tribute at the Harbourfront International Festival of Authors in Toronto. In 1996, The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant was published to universal acclaim. Paris Stories , a selection edited by Michael Ondaatje, appeared in 2002, and was followed by the companion volume Montreal Stories , edited by Russell Banks, in 2004. Gallant is a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has received several honorary degrees from Canadian universities and remains a much-sought-after public speaker. In 2001 she became the first winner of the Matt Cohen Award, and in 2002 she won the Blue Metropolis International Literary Grand Prix and the Rea Award for the Short Story. She continues to live in Paris.

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Bookseller: W. Fraser Sandercombe (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 228792
Title: ACROSS THE BRIDGE - New Stories
Author: Gallant, Mavis
Illustrator: Edwin Holgate;
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0771033052
ISBN 13: 9780771033056
Publisher: McClelland and Stewart
Place of Publication: Toronto
Date Published: 1993
Size: 8vo
Keywords: canadian author; literary; magazine; journal; small press; governor general's award;
Bookseller catalogs: Literature;

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