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The Town Below

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This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1948 profile on Quebec novelist Roger Lemelin and his 1944 debut novel, The Town Below, set in the working-class parish of St. Sauveur near Quebec City.

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Mavis Gallant

Neil Besner wrote the first PhD on Mavis Gallant’s work in 1983 at UBC and published the first full-length book on Gallant in 1988. He has written or edited books on Alice Munro and Carol Shields and co-edited anthologies of poetry and short fiction for Oxford. His most recent book is Fishing with Tardelli: A Memoir of Family in Time Lost (2022).