the hoarse imprecation of the left and the shriller keening of the right
The characters who people Mavis Gallant's Europe are complex and various. The same is true of her protean prose.
the tenebrous religious education I received from the Salesian brothers in the early sixties
The big news of the following month was that three-day passes to Paris would now be issued in C company, a few at a time, and the tents began to ring with shrill and lubricious talk.
The pain made me chary and prevented me from being excited except in an abstract way
