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Paris Stories: The Writing of Mavis Gallant

Paris Stories explores the force of fiction for a woman who left Canada and her "good job for a girl" to live in a city where writers weren't viewed with suspicion and asked for three months rent in advance. Considered by both critics and her literary peers to be one of the most talented women writing in the English language, this film offers an intimate glimpse of a fiercely private woman devoted to the compact elegance of the short story.

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  • Mavis Gallant

    Mavis Gallant

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  • Margaret Atwood

    Margaret Atwood

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  • Robert Fulford

    Robert Fulford

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  • Russell Banks

    Russell Banks

    Himself

  • Michael Ondaatje

    Michael Ondaatje

    Himself

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Paris Stories explores the force of fiction for a woman who left Canada and her "good job for a girl" to live in a city where writers weren't viewed with suspicion and asked for three months rent in advance. Considered by both critics and her literary peers to be one of the most talented women writing in the English language, this film offers an intimate glimpse of a fiercely private woman devoted to the compact elegance of the short story.

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