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Synopsis
William Trevor has long been hailed as one of the greatest living writers of short story. In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, he once again plumbs the depths of the human heart. Here we encounter a blind piano turner whose wonderful memories of his first wife are cruelly distorted by his second; a woman in a difficult marriage who must choose between her indignant husband and her closest friend; two children, survivors of divorce, who mimic their parents' melodramas; and a heartbroken woman traveling alone in Italy who experiences an epiphany while studying a forgotten artists's Annunciation.
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'A luminous, disturbing collection of short stories by a master of the form' New York Times Book Review
'Each of the twelve stories in William Trevor's glittering new collection, After Rain, surveys a quietly devastating little earthquake. Tremors that ensue when pressure is put on a fault-line running through a marriage, family or friendship are traced with fine precision' Sunday Times
'These stories look quiet, but they can be cut through with violence and cruelty. Trevors puts his innocents in the grasp of tricksters and brutes... It is a mark of his subtlety and wisdom that he can make us feel so differently, in different stories, about acceptance' Independent on Sunday
'With each new volume you can see why William Trevor is the envy of so many writers' Daily Telegraph Books of the Year
About the Author
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.
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- PublisherViking
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0670870072
- ISBN 13 9780670870073
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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