VARIETIES OF EXILE"For those who got out?"
By Mavis Gallant
Canadian expats look lovingly home in this collection by Mavis Gallant, a kind of Alice Munro for those who got out.
—Chris Beha, Bookforum
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Canada: the world's small town
Not sure how underrated some of the books on this list are – Martin Amis? Lydia Millet? Russell Banks? – but this one is even more of an eyebrow raiser:
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A very subtle and funny writer - one I've become obsessed with over the past year - in a decidedly Muriel Spark mood. Imagine The Pr...
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"For those who got out" ... of the country. See, cuz Gallant lives in Paris, which the Yanks will grudgingly admit is an important locale, unlike Canada, which is just that pot-smokin', same-sex marriage sanctionin', Iraq-war eschewin' annoyance to the north.
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