Ireland: Selected Stories (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Trevor, William

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9780140242638: Ireland: Selected Stories (Penguin Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0140242635 ISBN 13: 9780140242638

Publisher: Penguin, 1995

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Includes "The Ballroom of Romance", "The Distant Past", "Teresa's Wedding", "Death in Jerusalem", "Downstairs at Fitzgerald's" "Beyond the Pale" and "The Paradise Lounge".

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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.

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