Author: Mavis Gallant
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Oct 1993
The Choice One Makes by Rita Donovan Mavis Gallant's stories receive international attention when published separately in major magazines, so it is always an event when they are gathered to form a new collection. Read more...
| May 2002
| Home Truths by Mavis Gallant McClelland & Stewart 378 pages $18.99 paper ISBN: 0771032927
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The Poetics of Dislocation by David Ingham
When a Canadian literary icon publishes a new work, the first question for the reviewer is "How does this work stand up to this writer's earlier work?" When the work of such a writer is re-released after twenty years, however, the question changes to "How well has this work stood up over time?"
For Mavis Gallant's Home Truths, which was first published in 1981 and won the Governor-General's Award for fiction that year, the short answer is "Quite well, thank you. Read more...
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