Two Lives: Reading Turgenev and My House in Umbria - Softcover

Trevor, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140172637 ISBN 13: 9780140172638

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 1995

Synopsis

Two novels--"Reading Turgenev" and "My house in Umbria"--explore the lives of two women whose lives are marred by the absence of love

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Review:

The two lives of the title are brilliantly illuminated in a pair of short novels, Reading Turgenev and My House in Umbria, that exemplify the biting, tragicomic work of this Anglo-Irish master. The first novel is a sorrowful love story, the second a sort of thriller. Each of Trevor's two heroines is trapped in her life, one in Ireland and the other in Italy, and each has some experience of the transformative power of literature, a subject the author knows at first hand. Nobody can break your heart with such laconic precision. To be read with Bushmill's in hand.

About the Author:

William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, and spent his childhood in provincial Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin. He 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, and The Story of Lucy Gault, which was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread Fiction Prize. 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 appeared regularly in The New Yorker. In 1997, he was named Honorary Commander of the British Empire.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0140172637
• ISBN 13: 9780140172638
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384