A Fairly Good Time and Green Water, Green Sky

AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL Mavis Gallant’s novels are as memorable as her renowned short stories. Full of wit and psychological poignancy, A Fairly Good Time , here with  Green Water, Green Sky , encapsulates Gallant’s unparalleled skill as a storyteller.  Shirley Perrigny (née Norrington, then briefly Higgins), the heroine of A Fairly Good Time , is an original. Derided by the Parisians she lives among and chided by her fellow Canadians, this young widow—recently remarried to a French