{"product_id":"the-uncollected-stories-of-mavis-gallant-9781681378749","title":"The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of over thirty short stories by one of the greatest fiction writers in American history, now available in a single volume for the first time ever.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe immensity of Gallant's achievement still seems insufficiently recognized. Alice Munro's Nobel notwithstanding, Gallant may in fact have been the best pure story writer since the early-1950s prime of Cheever, Welty, and Flannery O'Connor, and even in such august company, Gallant's stories are sui generis. They do something different than perfecting the tradition or stretching the boundaries of what the form can do. For all their expansiveness, Gallant's stories constitute a striking and almost avant-garde reduction: in reading her, one feels like they discover something about what a short story really\u003ci\u003e is \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eisn't\u003c\/i\u003e--about what is necessary, and what is sufficient. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant\u003c\/i\u003e includes over thirty stories never before collected in one volume, including \"The Accident\" and \"His Mother\" and \"An Autobiography\" and \"Ded?.\" With the publication of this book, finally all of this modern master's fiction will be in print.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681378749\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Mavis Gallant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44849033183413,"sku":"9781681378749","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_9b625103-b525-4681-8c67-a5560d94d698.jpg?v=1732634654","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-uncollected-stories-of-mavis-gallant-9781681378749","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}