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Later, living in Paris, Gallant took up the Jamesian theme of innocents abroad, though she sometimes sketched her expatriates with the quicker, more economical strokes of a Hemingway.
To that Europe, Gallant brought a new bemused realism and an acquaintance with such petty facts as train schedules and plumbing.
If Gallant sometimes achieves the same high notes that great reporting does, her less-successful stories resemble the more meandering old New Yorker human-interest profiles, in which a person's fleeting thoughts, neurotic habits, and random memories are woven into a pattering portrait.
Yet, unlike Le Carré, Gallant does not believe in plot, or in speculating on the meaning of her stories.
By Gallant's own admission in the introduction, she composes with an eye to craft, not the deeper heart of a story.