Overhead in a Balloon
Gallant clusters the stories like one is hearing about a circle of friends or acquaintances at a party.
Mavis Gallant
(August 11th, 1922 – February 18th, 2014)
Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant (née Young) was a Canadian writer who spent most of her life in France. She was awarded a Companion of the Order of Canada for her literary contributions. She also was a Governor General’s Award winner for her literature and has won numerous other awards and honours for her writing.
Mavis Gallant is a book author.
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In Transit
Unlike most short story collections, In Transit is a work that I would recommend considering as a whole. Though the stories were published separately and years apart, they share a very similar theme. All of them are about being lost in time, lost in space, and lost somewhere far from home.