A Fairly Good Time
Since the 1979 publication of From the Fifteenth District, Canadians have welcomed the appearance of Mavis Gallant's superb fiction. Her latest collection of elegantly crafted stories, Home Truths, won the 1981 Governor General's Award for Fiction, as well as universal critical and popular acclaim. Now available for the first time in paperback, since its publication in 1970, Mavis Gallant's third novel, A Fairly Good Time, recounts the story of Shirley Perrigny, a young Canadian girl in Paris who has been freshly deserted by her French journalist husband. Confused and vague, she wanders though a city utterly foreign to her, accumulating an odd assortment of characters who reflect her warmth and generosity, and, above all, her instinctive ability to survive.
308 pages, 3 editions
English edition · First published 1983 by G.K. Hall · ISBN 9780839828969
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Editions
3 editions
English
- A Fairly Good Time · G.K. Hall · 1986 · ISBN 9780839828969 This page
- A Fairly Good Time: With Green Water, Green Sky · New York Review Books · 2015 · ISBN 9781590179888
- A Fairly Good Time: [A Novel] · Macmillan of Canada · 1983 · ISBN 9780771597756
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