After Rain - Softcover

William Trevor

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ISBN 10: 0676970257 ISBN 13: 9780676970258

Publisher: Vintage Canada, 1997

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Here is a new collection of twelve absorbing, deeply compassionate tales that reveal the subtle revenges of love and indifference, the deep wells of affection, and the strange, breathtaking tricks of chance that make up the texture of our lives. In the rain-washed Italian hills, a forgotten artist's Annunciation brings light to a heartbroken woman; insidiously, in her struggle for love, the second wife of a blind piano tuner distorts his memories of the first; two children, survivors of divorce, mimic their parents' dramas and passions; a mother, tied through love and fear to her son, watches with helpless dread as she realizes the monster he has become.

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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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