Tales collected from the seven previous books of an expert craftsman of the short story depict the comforts and frustrations of life in rural Ireland, the complexities of family, and the elusive grace of love. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo. Tour.
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William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He has written many novels, and has won many prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. His most recent novel Love and Summer was longlisted for the Booker Prize. He is also a renowned writer of short stories, and his two-volume Collected Stories was published by Viking Penguin in 2009. In 1999 William Trevor received the prestigious David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement, and in 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature.
“Extraordinary . . . Mr. Trevor’s sheer intensity of entry into the lives of his people . . . proceeds to uncover new layers of yearning and pain, new angles of vision and credible thought.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“One of the finest writers now at work in our language . . . No writer practicing the form today moves with nimbler assurances than Trevor across such an impressive gamut of social types and emotional connections.”
—The Boston Globe
“The indisputable master of twentieth-century fiction . . . Trevor’s carefully chiseled, lyrical prose—at once ironic and elegiac—is addictive, his insights acutely compassionate. The tales are haunting and profound.”
—Publishers Weekly
“A textbook for anyone who ever wanted to write a story, and a treasure for anyone who loves to read them.”
—Madision Smartt Bell, USA Today
“The range of characters that Trevor manages to bring onstage is little short of astonishing. . . . A remarkable record of the distinctive imprint that Trevor has left on what is arguably this century’s quintessential art form.”
—New York Newsday
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Seller: Eastleach Books, Newbury, BER, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1st edition. Illustrated boards, G. 2 volumes, viii+880pp, viii+947pp, small split at the head of the spine to volume I, scuff mark to the spine of volume II, slipcase marked & edge worn, a fair set. The collected short stories of William Trevor. This set contains all of the stories published in the 1992 'Collected Stories' ( which gathered together tales from seven previous volumes ), as well as the tales from Trevor's 4 later collections - 'After Rain', 'The Hill Batchelors', 'A Bit On The Side', and 'Cheating At Canasta'. Seller Inventory # 52706
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Seller: Rosemarie Spannbauer, Neureichenau, Germany
Hardcover. Condition: Wie neu. Dust Jacket Condition: Wie neu. 2 Bände in dekorativem Schuber; ungelesen, Seller Inventory # ABE-1615563632822
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