Mavis Gallant’s “The Concert Party”

2020-09-29T16:36:28-04:00

For readers who have met Steven first in “Let it Pass” and then, much younger, in “In a War”, it would have been doubly significant to come across this passage, in a story about the Steven-between-youth-and-age: “In plain terms, this is not a recollection but the memory of