A fairly good time
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New York : New York Review Books, [2015].
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
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Published
New York : New York Review Books, [2015].
Format
Book
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308 pages ; 22 cm
Street Date
1604
Language
English
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"An NYRB Classics Original Mavis Gallant's two novels are as memorable as her many short stories. Full of wit, whim, and psychological poignancy, A Fairly Good Time, here accompanied by Green Water, Green Sky, encapsulates Gallant's unparalleled skill as a storyteller. Shirley Perrigny (nee Norrington, then briefly Higgins), the heroin of A Fairly Good Time, is an original. Derided by the Parisians she lives among and chided by her fellow Canadians, this young, widowed girl recently remarried to a French journalist named Philippe is fond of quoting from Jane Austen and Kingsley Amis to describe her life 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 the unreliable protagonist be the unwitting heroine of her own story? Green Water, Green Sky, Gallant's first novel, is a darker tale of the fractured family life of Bonnie McCarthy, an American divorcee, and her daughter, Flor. Uprooted and unmoored, mother and daughter live like itinerants--in Venice, Cannes, and Paris--glamorous and dependent. From this untidy life and the false notes of her mother, Flor attempts to flee, with little hope of escape"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Gallant, M., & Gallant, M. (2015). A fairly good time . New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gallant, Mavis and Mavis. Gallant. 2015. A Fairly Good Time. New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gallant, Mavis and Mavis. Gallant. A Fairly Good Time New York Review Books, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Gallant, Mavis,, and Mavis Gallant. A Fairly Good Time New York Review Books, 2015.
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