William Trevor
1) Last stories
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English
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"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...
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Language
English
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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
1995.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000.
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...
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
Forty-seven-year-old widow Julia Ferndale can't believe her good luck-she's about to remarry. What's more, her fiancé, Francis Tyte, is a charming actor and magazine model fourteen years her junior. Her daughters are thrilled. Her mother is suspicious. But unfortunately for Julia, she keeps those suspicions to herself.
After the wedding, Francis reveals a past that includes an abandoned wife, a mistress and child, and the many others he's used and...
Author
Publisher
Bodley Head
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Description
Graduates of an elite English public school, the septuagenarian members of the Old Boys Association have convened in London to decide who shall be their next president. Mr. Jaraby has been proposed, and unless there is an objection from his circle of peers, he will assume the position automatically. It seems like little more than an excuse to get together and reminisce about old pranks played on the headmaster. But while none of their boyhood bonds...
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Language
English
Description
Gathered in this big volume is all the short fiction from Trevor's seven previous collections as well as four stories that have never previously appeared in book form. Irishman Trevor's reputation as one of the finest and highly regarded contemporary short story writers is affirmed by this magnificent collection.
11) After rain
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1996.
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
Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1987]
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...
14) Death in summer
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1998.
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
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
Once a flourishing establishment, O'Neill's Hotel has fallen on hard times. The same could be said for the people who live there. Among them are Mrs. Sinnott, the elderly, deaf, and mute proprietor; her drunkard son, Eugene; Morrissey, a small-time pimp; and the grim, lone porter O'Shea. But what might sound bleak to some holds irresistible allure for globetrotting photographer Ivy Eckdorf.
Hearing stories of O'Neill's Hotel from an ocean liner barman,...
16) Fools of fortune
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
William Quinton, a young Irishman who survived the 1918 Irish "troubles," fell in love with a beautiful English cousin. Not until fifty years later did he learn that they have a child.
17) Elizabeth alone
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
At forty-one, the news that she requires a hysterectomy strikes Elizabeth Aidallbery as something of a nonevent. But from her bed at Cheltenham Women's Hospital, the divorced mother of three comes to realize that she is at a crossroads. She meets two other women admitted for the same operation: Young Sylvie Clapper, who is preoccupied with her dishonest boyfriend; and poor Miss Samson, with her disfiguring birthmark, who runs a Christian boarding...