β Scribed by Mavis Gallant
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A new collection of stories by Mavis Gallant is always a major publishing event. For this is the writer wholike Margaret Atwood and Alice Munrohas made Canadian short stories a presence on the world literary scene, and on our bestseller lists.
In Across the Bridge four of the eleven stories are connected, following the fortunes of the Carette family in Montreal. In 1933 their widowed mother teaches Berthe and Marie to deny that she was a seamstress and to say instead that she was clever with her hands. In The Chosen Husband the luckless suitor Louis has to undergo the front-parlour scrutiny of Maries mother and sister: But then Louis began to cough and had to cover his mouth. He was in trouble with a caramel. The Carettes looked away, so that he could strangle unobserved. How dark it is, said Berthe, to let him think he could not be seen.
We then follow their marriage, the birth of Raymond, and Raymonds flight from his mother and aunt to his eventual role as a motel manager in Florida. The place was full of Canadians, he said. They stole like raccoons...
With the exception of The Fenton Child, an eerie story set in postwar Montreal, the other stories take place in the Paris Mavis Gallant knows so well. Across the Bridge, the title story, begins with the narrators mother throwing her reluctant daughters wedding invitations into the Seine. I watched the envelopes fall in a slow shower and land on the dark water and float apart. Strangers leaned on the parapet and stared, too, but nobody spoke.
This is a superb collection of stories by a writer at the top of her form.
From the Hardcover edition.
Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9781551996264
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