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The Collected Stories

By William Trevor

By William Trevor

By William Trevor

By William Trevor

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Dec 01, 1993 | ISBN 9780140232455

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Dec 01, 1993 | ISBN 9781101667231

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    About The Collected Stories

    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 in life itself. To read this volume is not just to encounter an extraordinary literary stylist, but to understand life as surely as though we were looking through the eyes of his protagonists and—deeper still—into their hearts.

    William Trevor: The Collected Stories includes the tales from his seven previous books, as well as four stories that have never appeared in book form in America. They depict the comforts and frustrations of life in rural Ireland, the complexities of family relationships, and the elusive grace of love. They portray the almost invisible strands that bind people to each other as well as the chains that imprison them in solitary yearning.

    About The Collected Stories

    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 in life itself. To read this volume is not just to encounter an extraordinary literary stylist, but to understand life as surely as though we were looking through the eyes of his protagonists and—deeper still—into their hearts.

    William Trevor: The Collected Stories includes the tales from his seven previous books, as well as four stories that have never appeared in book form in America. They depict the comforts and frustrations of life in rural Ireland, the complexities of family relationships, and the elusive grace of love. They portray the almost invisible strands that bind people to each other as well as the chains that imprison them in solitary yearning.

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    Also by William Trevor

    Last Stories
    Two Lives
    Selected Stories
    Love and Summer
    Cheating at Canasta
    See all books by William Trevor

    About William Trevor

    William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, and spent his childhood in provincial Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin. He has written many novels and short story collections and has won many prizes, including the Hawthornden Prize and… More about William Trevor

    About William Trevor

    William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, and spent his childhood in provincial Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin. He has written many novels and short story collections and has won many prizes, including the Hawthornden Prize and… More about William Trevor

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Short Stories

    Paperback | $38.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Dec 01, 1993 | 1280 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780140232455

    Category: Literary Fiction | Short Stories

    Ebook | $21.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Dec 01, 1993 | 1280 Pages | ISBN 9781101667231

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    Praise

    “Extraordinary . . . Mr. Trevor’s sheer intensity of entry into the lives of his people . . . proceeds to uncover new layers of yearning and pain, new angles of vision and credible thought.”
    —The New York Times Book Review

    “One of the finest writers now at work in our language . . . No writer practicing the form today moves with nimbler assurances than Trevor across such an impressive gamut of social types and emotional connections.”
    —The Boston Globe

    “The indisputable master of twentieth-century fiction . . . Trevor’s carefully chiseled, lyrical prose—at once ironic and elegiac—is addictive, his insights acutely compassionate. The tales are haunting and profound.”
    —Publishers Weekly

    “A textbook for anyone who ever wanted to write a story, and a treasure for anyone who loves to read them.”
    —Madision Smartt Bell, USA Today

    “The range of characters that Trevor manages to bring onstage is little short of astonishing. . . . A remarkable record of the distinctive imprint that Trevor has left on what is arguably this century’s quintessential art form.”
    —New York Newsday 

    Table Of Contents

    The Collected Stories A Meeting in Middle Age
    Access to the Children
    The General’s Day
    Memories of Youghal
    The Table
    A School Story
    The Penthouse Apartment
    In at the Birth
    The Introspections of J. P. Powers
    The Day We Got Drunk on Cake
    Miss Smith
    The Hotel of the Idle Moon
    Nice Day at School
    The Original Sins of Edward Tripp
    The Forty-seventh Saturday
    The Ballroom of Romance
    A Happy Family
    The Grass Widows
    The Mark-2 Wife
    An Evening with John Joe Dempsey
    Kinkies
    Going Home
    A Choice of Butchers
    O Fat White Woman
    Raymond Bamber and Mrs. Fitch
    The Distant Past
    In Isfahan
    Angels at the Ritz
    The Death of Peggy Meehan
    Mrs. Silly
    A Complicated Nature
    Teresa’s Wedding
    Office Romances
    Mr. McNamara
    Afternoon Dancing
    Last Wishes
    Mrs. Acland’s Ghosts
    Another Christmas
    Broken Homes
    Matilda’s England: 1. The Tennis Court; 2. The Summer-house; 3. The Drawing-room
    Torridge
    Death in Jerusalem
    Lovers of Their Time
    The Raising of Elvira Tremlett
    Flights of Fancy
    Attracta
    A Dream of Butterflies
    The Bedroom Eyes of Mrs. Vansittart
    Downstairs at Fitzgerald’s
    Mulvihill’s Memorial
    Beyond the Pale
    The Blue Dress
    The Teddy-bears’ Picnic
    The Time of Year
    Being Stolen From
    Mr Tennyson
    Autumn Sunshine
    Sunday Drinks
    The Paradise Lounge
    Mags
    The News from Ireland
    On the Zattere
    The Wedding in the Garden
    Lunch in Winter
    The Property of Colette Nervi
    Running Away
    Cocktails at Doney’s
    Her Mother’s Daughter
    Bodily Secrets
    Two More Gallants
    The Smoke Trees of San Pietro
    Virgins
    Music
    Events at Drimaghleen
    Family Sins
    A Trinity
    The Third Party
    Honeymoon in Tramore
    The Printmaker
    In Love with Ariadne
    A Husband’s Return
    Coffee with Oliver
    August Saturday
    Children of the Headmaster
    Kathleen’s Field
    Acknowledgments

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