Collected Stories: Volume One: v. 1 - Hardcover

Trevor, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670918334 ISBN 13: 9780670918331

Publisher: Viking, 2009

Synopsis

William Trevor's Collected Stories was published by Viking in 1992, and has remained constantly in print as a Penguin paperback. Since then Trevor has published four highly acclaimed new collections of stories: After Rain, The Hill Bachelors, A Bit on the Side and Cheating at Canasta. These stories have now been gathered together with those in the 1992 book to make two handsome volumes which thus together contain the complete shorter fiction of a writer whom John Banville has called 'the greatest living writer of short stories'.

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Review:

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"

"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

-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

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 latest novel, Love and Summer, is published in August 2009. His most recent short-story collection was Cheating at Canasta (2007). 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. He now lives in Devon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0670918334
• ISBN 13: 9780670918331
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 896