Overhead in a Balloon

Name: Overhead in a Balloon
Author: Mavis Gallant

by Mavis Gallant

Story collection of travelers and outsiders observing society

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About the author

Mavis Gallant

Canadian short-story writer who spent most of her life in Paris, contributing stories to The New Yorker for over fifty years. Her fiction is celebrated for its ironic precision and its portraits of displacement and exile. She is considered one of the great short-story writers in the English language.

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