by Mavis Gallant · LaBreu Edicions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788412457575
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«Una bona estona» is the contemporary fiction novel by Mavis Gallant, published by LaBreu Edicions in paperback (357 pages, in Catalan).
The novel follows Shirley Perrigny, a young woman in 1960s Paris who protects herself with literature and her myopia. Ridiculed by Parisians and misunderstood by her mother, she always feels out of place. After marrying a snobbish journalist who abandons her, she tries to help friends in crisis and gets involved with the upstairs neighbor.
Volume 29 of the «La intrusa» collection; translation by Ignasi Pons i Arús. First edition published on 1 April 2022.
Aimed at readers of contemporary fiction interested in misfit female characters and 1960s Paris.
Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant,, was a Canadian writer who spent much of her life and career in France. Best known as a short story writer, she also published novels, plays and essays.
