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Felicia's Journey

Name: Felicia's Journey
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Author: William Trevor
ISBN: 9780140253603

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Published on Jan 01, 1996 | 240 Pages

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“Perfectly executed and chilling… a sad and oddly moving tale of lost opportunities and misplaced hopes.”“—The New York Times

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

Felicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She steals away from a small Irish town and drifts through the industrial English Midlands, searching for the boyfriend who left her. Instead she meets up with the fat, fiftyish, unfailingly reasonable Mr. Hilditch, who is looking for a new friend to join the five other girls in his Memory Lane. But the strange, sad, terrifying tricks of chance unravel both his and Felicia’s delusions in a story that will magnetize fans of Alfred Hitchcock and Ruth Rendell even as it resonates with William Trevor’s own “impeccable strength and piercing profundity” (The Washington Post Book World).

“A page-turner marked by brilliant psychological suspense.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Felicia’s Journey is packed with extraordinary passages.”
—Time

“A battle for the soul, waged between the forces of good and evil . . . Mr. Trevor shows just how wise and wry and funny and morally astute an observer of the human comedy he is.”
—Patrick McGrath, The New York Times Book Review

“A thriller lifted to the level of high art . . .”
—Publishers Weekly

“In thirteen novels and eight short-story collections [William Trevor] has shown himself a close observer, a fine stylist, a master psychologist. In Felicia’s Journey . . . he brings all these qualities into play, and adds to them a teasing manipulation of the reader’s sensibilities, so that the book has the elegant tensions of a high-class thriller.”
—The New York Review of Books

“One of the very best writers of our era.”
—The Washington Post Book World

Author

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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