| Description |
1261 pages ; 25 cm |
| 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. The tennis court ; The summer-house ; 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. |
| Summary |
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. Startling, funny, compassionate, and profound, William Trevor's stories engage and provoke us as only the best fiction can. |
| Subject |
Ireland -- Fiction.
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| Indexed Term |
English fiction Short stories |
| Added Title |
Short stories. Selections
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| ISBN |
0670841293 |
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9780670841295 |
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0670848972 limited edition |
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9780670848973 limited edition |
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