In Transit: 220 Stories

``Twenty stories that first appeared in the New Yorker 's golden era of the 1950s and '60s are gathered for the first time in this brilliant collection. Gallant is one of the great short story writers of our time, and these three groups of stories--``Parents and Children,'' ``Youth, Pursuit and Various Entanglements'' and ``Relatives, Friends and Adult Confusion''--represent the extraordinary diversity of her endlessly revealing fictions,'' praised PW. (Oct.)