William Trevor
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Language
English
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Author of more than a dozen novels, including Felicia's Journey, Irish author William Trevor is hailed as one of the most extraordinary writers of today. He has a special talent for examining the innermost regions of his characters' hearts. The Story of Lucy Gault traces the repercussions of a child's attempt to remain in her beloved home. Threatened with a move from Ireland to England, 9-year-old Lucy runs away, setting off a series of misunderstandings...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
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A stunning, rich novel of suspense from one of Ireland's most distinguished writers. In Felicia's Journey, Trevor gently explores the intricate relationship between a predator and his intended victim. Felicia is young and pregnant, having stolen away from a small Irish town to search for her boyfriend in the industrial sprawl of the English Midlands.
Fat, 50ish, and unfailingly reasonable, Mr. Hilditch is looking for a new friend to join the five...
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Language
English
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A collection of short stories from celebrated author William Trevor in which he shines a light on the day-to-day life of Ireland and its citizens.
From his debut collection, “The Day We Got Drunk on Cake,” published in 1968, to “Family Sins” (1990), William Trevor has crafted the short story to perfection, giving us brilliant and subtle stories full of the reversals, surprises, and shadowy truths we discover...
From his debut collection, “The Day We Got Drunk on Cake,” published in 1968, to “Family Sins” (1990), William Trevor has crafted the short story to perfection, giving us brilliant and subtle stories full of the reversals, surprises, and shadowy truths we discover...
6) Two Lives
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
William Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking.
In Reading Turgenev, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, an Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man, but finds release through secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian novels.
My House in Umbra tells of Emily Delahunty, a writer of romantic novels, who helps survivors of a bomb attack on...
In Reading Turgenev, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, an Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man, but finds release through secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian novels.
My House in Umbra tells of Emily Delahunty, a writer of romantic novels, who helps survivors of a bomb attack on...
7) Last stories
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The beloved and acclaimed William Trevor's last ten stories With a career that spanned more than half a century, William Trevor is regarded as one of the best writers of short stories in the English language. Now, in Last Stories, the master storyteller delivers ten exquisitely rendered tales--nine of which have never been published in book form--that illuminate the human condition and will surely linger in the reader's mind long after closing the...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After his wife dies Thaddeus Davenant, owner of a country estate in England, advertises for a nanny for their baby but finds no one suitable. One candidate, however, decides the palatial surroundings would suit her very well and she is ready to do anything to obtain the job. The result is drama.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
231 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The publication of a new book by William Trevor is a true literary event. One of our finest chroniclers of the human condition, Trevor?s precise and unflinching insights into the lives of ordinary people are evidenced once again in this stunning collection of twelve stories. Subtle yet powerful, these exquisitely nuanced tales of regret, deception, adultery, aging, and forgiveness are a rare pleasure, and they confirm Trevor’s reputation as a master...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1988
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As governess to her wealthy cousins, the Rollestons, on the eve of World War I, Sarah Pollefen is only vaguely aware of the dark rituals and painful secrets that haunt the seemingly tranquil garden.
12) After rain
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A dozen stories from an Irish writer. In Gilbert's Mother, a woman discovers her son rapes and kills, but decides not to denounce him because it's partly her fault, she brought him into this world, while The Potato Dealer is on a man's reaction to his wife's confession that a baby is not his.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
William Trevor has long been hailed as the master of the short story. His new collection, The Hill Bachelors, is an elegant, heartbreaking book about men and women and their missed opportunities. Here we meet four people in a small suburban house, whose lives are frozen in a conspiracy of silence that precludes love's consummation; a nine-year-old who harbors a dream that a movie part will end her fragmented family life; a brother and sister who must...
15) Fools of fortune
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1983
Physical Desc
238 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
16) Selected stories
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
567 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1987
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
80 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
At fifty-eight, Harry is a lifelong bachelor who never left the Irish village where he was born. But he will never forget the beautiful Englishwoman, and her much older German husband, who brought a new world into view when they escaped Hitler's Germany to come and live at Cloverhill.
To fifteen-year-old Harry, Frau Messinger was a vision of elegance and culture unlike any he'd ever known. Ignoring his family's suspicions, he was happy to fetch her...
