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The Other Paris

The Other Paris

Mavis Gallant
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Ringing with the same sarcastic attack on bourgeois America as Joan Didion's segment criticizing Las Vegas wedding chapels in her book Slouching Toward Bethlehem, Canadian writer Mavis Gallant's "The Other Paris" is a humorous---and at times poignant---criticism of the sterile concepts of love and marriage prevalent during the 1950's. Through characterization and narrative voice , Gallant expresses her disapproval of and, perhaps, even disgust for the bland form of marriage common during the early era and America's failure in challenging it. -associatedcontent.com Her first collection of stories, The Other Paris, explores the theme of dislocation, particularly as experienced by Americans and Canadians in Europe, and emphasizes the ways society affects individuals. In the title story, for instance, a young American woman travels to Paris anticipating romance and adventure, but finds instead a somber postwar ennui.--enotes.com Twelve stories deal with a young woman planning her wedding, an immature newlywed, Americans traveling in postwar Europe, a vacation cruise, a picnic, and a funeral. --from the publisher.
Language
English
Pages
240
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
G. K. Hall & Company
Release
March 01, 1986
ISBN
077159738X
ISBN 13
9780839828952

The Other Paris

Mavis Gallant
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Ringing with the same sarcastic attack on bourgeois America as Joan Didion's segment criticizing Las Vegas wedding chapels in her book Slouching Toward Bethlehem, Canadian writer Mavis Gallant's "The Other Paris" is a humorous---and at times poignant---criticism of the sterile concepts of love and marriage prevalent during the 1950's. Through characterization and narrative voice , Gallant expresses her disapproval of and, perhaps, even disgust for the bland form of marriage common during the early era and America's failure in challenging it. -associatedcontent.com Her first collection of stories, The Other Paris, explores the theme of dislocation, particularly as experienced by Americans and Canadians in Europe, and emphasizes the ways society affects individuals. In the title story, for instance, a young American woman travels to Paris anticipating romance and adventure, but finds instead a somber postwar ennui.--enotes.com Twelve stories deal with a young woman planning her wedding, an immature newlywed, Americans traveling in postwar Europe, a vacation cruise, a picnic, and a funeral. --from the publisher.
Language
English
Pages
240
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
G. K. Hall & Company
Release
March 01, 1986
ISBN
077159738X
ISBN 13
9780839828952

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