A Fairly Good Time and Green Water, Green Sky (New York Review

A Fairly Good Time and Green Water, Green Sky (New York Review Books Classics)

AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL

Mavis Gallantâ€™s novels are as memorable as her renowned short stories. Full of wit and psychological poignancy, A Fairly Good Time, here withÂ Green Water, Green Sky, encapsulates Gallantâ€™s unparalleled skill as a storyteller.Â

Shirley Perrigny (nÃ©e Norrington, then briefly Higgins), the heroine of A Fairly Good Time, is an original. Derided by the Parisians she lives among and chided by her fellow Canadians, this young widowâ€”recently remarried to a French journalist named Philippeâ€”is fond of quoting Jane Austen and Kingsley Amis and of using her myopia as a defense against social aggression. As the fixed points in Shirleyâ€™s life begin to recedeâ€”Philippe having apparently though not definitively leftâ€”her freewheeling, makeshift, and self-abnegating ways come to seem an aspect of devotion to her fellow man. Could this unreliable protagonist be the unwitting heroine of her own story?Â

Green Water, Green Sky, Gallantâ€™s first novel, is a darker tale of the fractured familyÂ life of Bonnie McCarthy, an American divorcÃ©e, and her daughter, Flor. Uprooted and unmoored, mother and daughter live like itinerantsâ€”in Venice, Cannes, and Parisâ€”glamorous and dependent. With little hope of escape, Flor attempts to flee this untidy life and the false notes of her mother.
Country USA
Brand New York Review of Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2016-04-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590179871

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review of Books
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Paperback
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2016-04-26
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781590179871

A Fairly Good Time and Green Water, Green Sky (New York Review Books Classics)

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