β Scribed by Mavis Gallant
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An NYRB Classics Original
Mavis Gallant's novels are as memorable as her renowned short stories. Full of wit and psychological poignancy, A Fairly Good Time , here with Green Water, Green Sky , encapsulates Gallant's unparalleled skill as a storyteller.
Shirley Perrigny (nee Norrington, then briefly Higgins), the heroine of A Fairly Good Time , is an original. Derided by the Parisians she lives among and chided by her fellow Canadians, this young widow--recently remarried to a French journalist named Philippe--is fond of quoting Jane Austen and Kingsley Amis 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 this unreliable protagonist be the unwitting heroine of her own story?...
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