Mavis Gallant

The Other Paris

American woman falls in love with Parisian city and man

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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