Henry prize, three-time winner of the whitbread Prize, and five-time finalist for the Man Booker Prize, William Trevor is one of the most acclaimed authors of our time. A marvelous collection from "the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language" The New Yorker.
The Collected Stories
. They depict the comforts and frustrations of life in rural Ireland, the complexities of family relationships, and the elusive grace of love. 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, surprises, william trevor has crafted the short story to perfection, ” published in 1968, to “Family Sins” 1990, giving us brilliant and subtle stories full of the reversals, “The Day We Got Drunk on Cake, and shadowy truths we discover in life itself.
They portray the almost invisible strands that bind people to each other as well as the chains that imprison them in solitary yearning.
Last Stories
We encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed dead is alive and well; and a piano-teacher who accepts her pupil's theft in exchange for his beautiful music. This final and special collection is a gift to lovers of literature and Trevor's many admirers, and affirms his place as one of the world's greatest storytellers.
This seemingly quiet but ultimately volcanic collection is his final gift to us, and it is filled with action sprung from human feeling. The new york times book reviewwith 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.
A new york times notable bookthe beloved and acclaimed william trevor's last ten stories"The great Irish writer, who died in 2016 at the age of 88, captured turning points in individual lives with effective understatement.
Two Lives
Two novels, two women who retreat further into the realm of the imagination until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurred.
Love and Summer: A Novel
A few miles out in the country, a farmer and a decent man, Dillahan, has married again: Ellie is the young convent girl who came to work for him when he was widowed. It?s summer and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. Ellie leads a quiet, routine life, often alone while Dillahan runs the farm. Connulty?s funeral.
So it doesn?t go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger appears on his bicycle and begins photographing the mourners at Mrs. But florian?s visit to Rathmoye introduces him to Ellie, and a dangerously reckless attachment begins. Florian is planning to leave Ireland and start over.
After Rain: Stories
Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature. Last stories is forthcoming from Viking. There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world. Wall street journal in this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumbs the depths of the human heart.
My fiction may, illuminate aspects of the human condition, now and again, but I do not consciously set out to do so. Conscious or not, he touches us in ways that few writers even dare to try. Trevor is, in his own words, "a storyteller. Trevor wrote eighteen novels and novellas, the yorkshire post book of the Year Award, for which he has won a number of prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, and hundreds of short stories, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement.
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The Story of Lucy Gault: A Novel
. Once read, will never be forgotten. The washington post Book World"Trevor was our twentieth century Chekov. Wall street journalthe stunning novel from highly acclaimed author William Trevor is a brilliant, and moving story of love, subtle, guilt, and forgiveness. Instead, she sets off a series of tragic misunderstandings that affect all of Lahardane's inhabitants for the rest of their lives.
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Cheating at Canasta
. Subtle yet powerful, these exquisitely nuanced tales of regret, and forgiveness are a rare pleasure, adultery, deception, aging, and they confirm Trevor's reputation as a master of the form.
Fools of Fortune Penguin Classics
Penguin classics is proud to welcome william trevor—"ireland’s answer to Chekhov" The Boston Globe and "one of the best writers of our era" The Washington Post—to our distinguished list of literary masters. Led by a zealous sergeant, the Black and Tans set fire to the family home, and only young Willie and his mother escape alive.
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Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 Vintage International
No wonder alice munro is often able to say more in thirty pages than an ordinary novelist is capable of in three hundred. And in stories that munro has described as “closer to the truth than usual”—“Dear Life, ” “Working for a Living, ” and “Home” among them—we glimpse the author’s own life.
As the nobel prize presentation speech says in part: “Reading one of Alice Munro’s texts is like watching a cat walk across a laid dinner table. Peopled with characters as real to us as we are to ourselves, ” to the lengths a once-straying husband will go to make his wife happy as her memory fades, in “Passion, Munro’s stories encompass the fullness of human experience—from the wild exhilaration of first love, in “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.
Other stories suggest the punishing consequences of leaving home “Runaway” or leaving a marriage “The Children Stay”. The part romantic love plays in one’s existence is explored in “Too Much Happiness, ” based on the life of the noted nineteenth-century mathematician, Sophia Kovalevsky. A brief short story can often cover decades, summarizing a life, as she moves deftly between different periods.
From the winner of the 2013 nobel prize in literature—and one of our most beloved writers—a new selection of her peerless short fiction, gathered from the collections of the last two decades, a companion volume to Selected Stories 1968-1994.
Cloudbursts: Collected and New Stories
Now the arc of that achievement appears in one definitive volume—forty-five stories, including two new and six previously uncollected pieces. One of the wall street journal's best books of the yearfor more than four decades, Thomas McGuane has been heralded as an unrivaled master of the short story.