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Internationally celebrated, award-winning author Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend: an undisputed master of the short story whose peerless prose captures the range of human experience while ev

With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr.

Bankers prowl Brooklyn bars on the eve of the stock market crash. A debate over Young Elvis versus Vegas Elvis turns existential. Detoxing junkies use a live lobster to spice up their love life.

"Ranging from an island holiday gone wrong to a dive bar on the upswing to a yuppie mother in a pricey subdivision seeing her worst fears come true, these deftly written stories are populated by ba

The stories in The Two of Us focus on pairs: intense one-on-one relationships and encounters.

"Midnight Sweatlodge tells the tale of a group of strangers and family gathered together to partake in this ancient aboriginal ceremony.

From "The Robot Baby," in which we discover what happens when a robot feels emotion for the very first time, to "Heaven," about a grandfather who died for a few minutes when he

Samuel Archibald’s stories come from over there: way, way over there.  They live in the woods, hunting for creatures that may or may not exist, and they sometimes go surging down the highway a

Blaise croyait qu'il avait laissé derrière lui la misère de son enfance. Que, malgré les stigmates de son passé, il deviendrait un artiste accompli.

A collection of short stories looking at the bizarre, the tragi-comic and the unbelievable elements that run through our lives.