{"product_id":"the-cost-of-living-early-and-uncollected-stories-paperback","title":"The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMavis Gallant\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJhumpa Lahiri\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA New York Review Books Original\u003cbr\u003eMavis Gallant is renowned as one of the great short-story writers of our day. This new gathering of long-unavailable or previously uncollected work presents stories from 1951 to 1971 and shows Gallant's progression from precocious virtuosity, to accomplished artistry, to the expansive innovatory spirit that marks her finest work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Madeleine's Birthday,\" the first of Gallant's many stories to be published in The New Yorker, pairs off a disaffected teenager, abandoned by her social-climbing mother, with a complacent middle-aged suburban housewife, in a subtly poignant comedy of miscommunication that reveals both characters to be equally adrift. \"The Cost of Living,\" the extraordinary title story, is about a company of strangers, shipwrecked over a chilly winter in a Parisian hotel and bound to one another by animosity as much as by unexpected love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in Paris, New York, the Riviera, and Montreal and full of scrupulously observed characters ranging from freebooters and malingerers to runaway children and fashion models, Gallant's stories are at once satirical and lyrical, passionate and skeptical, perfectly calibrated and in constant motion, brilliantly capturing the fatal untidiness of life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMavis Gallant\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Montreal and worked as a journalist at the Montreal Standard before moving to Europe to devote herself to writing fiction. After traveling extensively she settled in Paris, where she still resides. She is the recipient of the 2002 Rea Award for the Short Story and the 2004 PEN\/Nabokov Award for lifetime achievement. New York Review Books Classics has published two previous collections of Gallant's stories, \u003ci\u003eParis Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, selected and introduced by Michael Ondaatje (2002), and \u003ci\u003eVarieties of Exile, \u003c\/i\u003e selected and introduced by Russell Banks (2003). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJhumpa Lahiri\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the short-story collections \u003ci\u003eUnaccustomed Earth\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eInterpreter of Maladies\u003c\/i\u003e, and of a novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Namesake\u003c\/i\u003e. Her interview with Mavis Gallant appeared in the summer 2009 issue of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 7.94 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 29, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771255324960,"sku":"9781590173275","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a45da0f49e723ef9e2bedc7d7f58aeb8.webp?v=1780383627","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-cost-of-living-early-and-uncollected-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}