{"product_id":"9781550656749","title":"Montreal Standard Time: The Early Journalism of Mavis Gallant","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMontreal Standard Time\u003c\/em\u003e is drawn from Mavis Gallant’s columns in \u003cem\u003eThe Montreal Standard\u003c\/em\u003e during her six-year tenure at the newspaper, beginning in 1944, when she was 22. Gallant reported on an extraordinary range of subjects: labour issues, mining, existentialism, immigration, comedy, mercy killings, feminism, and suffrage. Her journalism is peopled by a rich cast of characters: writers, painters, politicians, criminals, street kids, war brides, refugees, and unwed mothers. Eighty years after they first saw the light of day, the columns remain as fresh as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with a precision, flair, and wit that would become her trademark, \u003cem\u003eMontreal Standard Time\u003c\/em\u003e is journalism of the first order. Taken together, the pieces create a remarkable portrait of Montreal in the eventful years during and after WW2, and of a young woman, fiercely independent and politically active, making her way through it. The book also corrects a long-standing gap in the Gallant oeuvre. Her celebrated reporting on the student riots in Paris in 1968 and on the Gabrielle Russier case are brilliant examples of her in-depth journalism. But that, and her insightful reviews and occasional pieces, have already been collected. Her earliest reporting from \u003cem\u003eThe Montreal Standard\u003c\/em\u003e, however, has never circulated or appeared in book form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdited by Neil Besner, Marta Dvorak, and Bill Richardson, with a preface by Mary K. MacLeod, \u003cem\u003eMontreal Standard Time\u003c\/em\u003e is indispensable not only for the light it throws on Gallant’s time and place, but in how it reveals a major writer coming into her powers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Véhicule Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46537581166833,"sku":"9781550656749","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781550656749_p0.jpg?v=1765690473","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781550656749","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}