The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor

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The Story of Lucy Gault

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Author: William Trevor
ISBN: 9781101667200

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Published on Aug 26, 2003 | 240 Pages

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Published on Aug 26, 2003 | 240 Pages

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“The Story of Lucy Gault . . . once read, will never be forgotten.”—The Washington Post Book World

“Trevor was our twentieth century Chekov.”—Wall Street Journal

The stunning novel from highly acclaimed author William Trevor is a brilliant, subtle, and moving story of love, guilt, and forgiveness. The Gault family leads a life of privilege in early 1920s Ireland, but the threat of violence leads the parents of nine-year-old Lucy to decide to leave for England, her mother’s home. Lucy cannot bear the thought of leaving Lahardane, their country house with its beautiful land and nearby beach, and a dog she has befriended. On the day before they are to leave, Lucy runs away, hoping to convince her parents to stay. Instead, she sets off a series of tragic misunderstandings that affect all of Lahardane’s inhabitants for the rest of their lives.

“One of Trevor’s finest works . . . Few living writers are capable of such mournful depth as William Trevor, and here he has given us an evensong to time itself.”
—The Boston Globe

“Trevor was and remains an author against whom other talents are measured. His work earns its place in the canon that ‘time’s esteem’ will keep alive.”
—The Economist

“Mr. Trevor’s pure observation and transparent prose should shame other writers.”
—New York Sun

“Beautifully drawn and revelatory. Beautifully drawn and revelatory.”
—Harper’s Magazine

“Beautiful and devastating . . . Trevor has once again captured the terrible beauty of Ireland’s fate, and the fate of us all-at the mercy of history, circumstance, and the vicissitudes of time.”
—Alice McDermott, The Atlantic Monthly

“From the award-winning author of Felicia’s Journey and My House in Umbria, a new novel that may well be his masterpiece.”
—Philadelphia Inquirer

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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 the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. The Story of Lucy Gault was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread Fiction Prize. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature.

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By William Trevor