“All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another.” “I simply followed events as they occurred from day to day, keeping track of conversations and things observed.” “One of the hardest things in the world is to describe what happened next.” There is the voice of Mavis Gallant: unblinkingly attentive and keen-eyed, making little of herself and much of others, tracking every nuance of human behavior, wise, dry, funny, and subtle.
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