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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsWilliam Trevor: The Collected Storiesby William Trevor
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:This collection includes tales from the award-winning author's seven previous books of short stories, as well as four that have never appeared in paperback form in America. Startling, funny, compassionate, and profound, Trevor's stories engage and provoke as only the best fiction can.
Review:"With the publication of this grand volume of stories—five complete collections, two of which are appearing in print for the first time in this country—Trevor, a native Irishman now living in England, ought finally to receive here the attention disgracefully overdue him. These stories prove Trevor to be one of the most distinguished and prolific prose writers currently writing in English. An awareness of the past permeates his work, particularly his later stories. That his characters' struggles often reflect Ireland's troubled history never distracts from but rather deepens those characters and their ordeals. Nearly 800 pages of important short fiction, this volume is a rare prize." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)
About the AuthorWilliam Trevor is the author of twenty-nine books, including Felicia’s Journey, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was made into a motion picture. In 1996 he was the recipient of the Lannan Award for Fiction. In 2001, he won the Irish Times Literature Prize for fiction. Two of his books were chosen by The New York Times as best books of the year, and his short stories appear regularly in the New Yorker. In 1997, he was named Honorary Commander of the British Empire. He lives in Devon, England. Table of Contents 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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