A Fairly Good Time Author:Mavis Gallant In a 1985 conversation with the New York Times, Mavis Gallant said, "I think it's true that in many, many of the things I write, someone has vanished." In "A Fairly Good Time," that someone is the husband of young Shirley Perrigny. Shirley's ruminative wanderings through Paris, a city essentially strange to her, as she comes to grips with this d... more »esertion, make up this brilliant novel of emotional survival.« less