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Montreal Standard Time: The Early Journalism of Mavis Gallant

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Availability:In StockContributor:Bill Richardson (Editor), Neil Besner (Editor), Marta Dvor?k (Editor)Publish date:2024-12-01Pages:308
Language:EnglishPublisher:Vehicule PressISBN-13:9781550656701ISBN-10:1550656708UPC:9781550656701Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Journalism, Canada, Women's StudiesBook Topic:Provincial, Territorial & LocalSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCZHW13J78
Montreal Standard Time is drawn from Mavis Gallant's columns in The Montreal Standard during her six-year tenure at the newspaper, beginning in 1944, when she was 22. Gallant reported on an extraordinary range of subjects: labour issues, mining, existentialism, immigration, comedy, mercy killings, feminism, and suffrage. Her journalism is peopled by a rich cast of characters: writers, painters, politicians, criminals, street kids, war brides, refugees, and unwed mothers. Eighty years after they first saw the light, the columns remain as fresh as ever. Written with a precision, flair, and wit that would become her trademark, Montreal Standard Time is journalism of the first order. Taken together, the pieces create a remarkable portrait of Montreal in the eventful years during and after WW2, and of a young woman, fiercely independent and politically active, making her way through it. The book also corrects a long-standing gap in the Gallant oeuvre. Her earliest reporting from The Montreal Standard has never circulated or appeared in book form.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Vehicule PressISBN-13:9781550656701ISBN-10:1550656708UPC:9781550656701Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Journalism, Canada, Women's StudiesBook Topic:Provincial, Territorial & LocalSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCZHW13J78
Bill Richardson, a longtime admirer of the writing of Mavis Gallant, began writing about her on Substack in 2022. His books include Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast, I Saw Three Ships, and After Hamelin, a novel for children. He lives in Vancouver. Neil Besner wrote the first PhD on Mavis Gallant's work in 1983 at UBC and published the first full-length book on Gallant in 1988. He has written or edited books on Alice Munro and Carol Shields and co-edited anthologies of poetry and short fiction for Oxford. His most recent book is Fishing With Tardelli: A Memoir of Family in Time Lost (2022). Marta Dvor? k, University Professor Emeritus (Sorbonne Nouvelle), is the author of Mavis Gallant: the Eye and the Ear (2019). Mary K. MacLeod is the literary executrix to Mavis Gallant.
Publisher: Vehicule Press

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