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 | | Trevor maintains that, unlike the characters in his stories, those in his novels 'cause everything to happen.' His early books are peopled by eccentrics who speak in a pedantically formal manner and engage in hilariously comic activities, which are recounted by a detached narrative voice. | | | Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel (1969), episodes of which illustrate Trevor's admiration of the work of Flann O'Brien, the early novels deal with English society, although they may include a minor character who is Irish. | | | In his third collection of stories, Angels at the Ritz, Trevor makes his first reference to the Northern Ireland Troubles, and in the following collections his observations deepen and darken, especially when the stories illustrate the coercive power of history. |
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http://www.readireland.ie/aotm/Trevor.html
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| | William Trevor was awarded an honorary CBE in 1977 for his services to literature, and was made a Companion of Literature in 1994. | | | William Trevor's latest book, A Bit On the Side (2004), is a collection of short stories on adultery. | | | As in the title story of his 1975 collection, Angels at the Ritz, which depicts the rituals of a suburban wife-swapping party, his descriptions are tinged with satire, but this is rarely savage, suggesting instead a mocking affection for his adopted home. |
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http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth122
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| | WilliamWil |
| | Although Trevor's span of characters is wide and varied, those central to his works have been women, children, the old, the middle-class, the lonely, the alienated, those belonging to failed marriages and those who experience unrequited love. | | | Two of Trevor's short stories The Distant Past and Beyond The Pale are set in contemporary Ireland, but again the English characters are painfully reminded of the past when the 'Troubles' impinge on their lives. | | | Bridie is a middle-aged spinister who is painfully aware that if the well-being of both herself and her crippled father is to be secured she must marry soon, not out of love, but out of convenience. |
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http://www.munsterlit.ie/Conwriters/william_trevor.htm
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Reviews The Story of Lucy Gault: Press views |
| | Trevor has written a novel as lovely as his extraordinary novella, Reading Turgenev, which seemed to give expression to the air between the words. | | | The genius of William Trevor is that his narrative transfigures pain, disappointment, tedium and even madness into beauty and consolation. | | | Trevor's simple, beautiful prose captures this world of separation, lost possibilities and lost love with powerful grace. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/reviews/2334105.stm
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| | 'A Bit on the Side: Stories' by William Trevor |
| | William Trevor, one of the most prolific of these, has published 19 novels, but he thinks of himself primarily as a short-story writer. | | | His latest collection provides further evidence that his reputation as one of the finest authors of short stories in English is well-deserved. | | | The silence that comes at the end of this book is different. |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04277/388855.stm
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| | Pete Lit: William Trevor, A Bit on the Side |
| | (Trevor leaves it left unsaid, a lovely habit of his which keeps the reader highly involved in his stories.) Instead, their relationship appeared to be platonic, with the two likely sharing no more than a love of books and conversation, indulged over coffee and cigarettes in the drawing-room of her decaying mansion. | | | This was not the case with Trevor's book: each story immediately came to mind upon reading the corresponding title, standing out distinctly and unmistakably. | | | He never smoked at home, continuing not to after he'd found himself alone there, and smoking was forbidden in the branch library, a restriction he insisted upon himself. |
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http://boogaj.typepad.com/pete_lit/2005/01/william_trevor_.html
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| | Metroactive Books William Trevor |
| | WILLIAM TREVOR, the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language, has managed over the last 30-odd years to tread down every avenue concerned with modern literature without ever once seeming faddish. | | | From the land and literature of his birth he seems to have learned passion and pathos; from his adopted country, intellectual curiosity and a scrupulous fairness in the observation of people. | | | We never actually find out if the son in "Gilbert's Mother" is a murderer and rapist, only that the mother's guilt impels her to take the blame for the failure of his life. |
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http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/11.14.96/books1-9646.html
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| | The Modern Library Authors |
| | For his admirers, Trevor at 72 is among the finest writers in the world and as a master of the short story, standing equal to V.S. Pritchett and John Cheever. | | | The distance that appears to have become a weakness for some readers is in fact among Trevor's great strengths and it serves his formal, rather impersonal prose. | | | His new book of stories The Hill Bachelors is as good as anything he has written, Against the Odds and the title story are among his best. |
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http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/wtrevor.html
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| | The Story of Lucy Gault - Reviewed by Kevin McGowin - Eclectica Magazine v7n3 |
| | William Trevor's riveting and suspenseful novel is the work of an experienced and masterful storyteller. | | | Trevor writes not a word too few or a word too many, and his plotting and narrative timing are damn near close to perfect. | | | More conventional in plot and form than most books I review, I can tell you no more than the information in that first paragraph unless I want to do a book report, not a book review. |
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http://www.eclectica.org/v7n3/mcgowin_trevor.html
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| | Barnes & Noble.com - William Trevor - Books: Meet the Writers |
| | Trevor succeeds in creating another haunting novel with this tale about a nine-year-old girl separated from her parents after she is mistakenly thought dead. | | | Known for moving, haunting novels such as Felicia's Journey and Fools of Fortune, Irish author William Trevor is also known as a master of the short story genre. | | | The lives they depict -- that of an unhappily married woman in Ireland and a romance novelist in Italy -- are different, but both stories explore the roles of literature and imagination in human existence. |
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http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writer.asp?cid=974952
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| | Barnes & Noble.com - The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor - Hardcover - 1 AMER ED |
| | Trevor's deeply poetic sense of the Irish character and countryside, his magical evocation of the passing of time, have never been more eloquent. | | | As in his earlier works, such as Felicia's Journey and Miss Gomez and the Brethren, Trevor's smooth, spare prose captures the quirky workings of the heart, and compassion for the human condition mitigates the harsh blows that fate often deals his characters. | | | All of that she loved and as the day of departure grew closer she determined that this exile should not take place. |
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http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0670031542&z=y
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| | Eric Sedlack - 02 - The Troublesome Son |
| | William promptly turned red as a beet and the last thing Trevor saw for some time was a seventeen-year-old fist rapidly approaching his face... | | | Trevor rushed to his brother and reached out with his healing senses. | | | William flushed with embarrassment, but he held his tongue. |
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http://www.airsid.net/B/5/F06.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Felicia's Journey : (movie tie-in edition): Books: William Trevor |
| | Trevor, long admired for his trenchant stories and novels, his subtle humor and broad compassion, retains all those virtues in his deeply absorbing new novel and adds a degree of narrative tension he has not shown before. | | | Trevor?s somnambular style glides us through a fallen dreamscape studded with flashbacks in a manner that almost exempts him of the empathetic anguish inflicted upon the reader. | | | William Trevor : The Collected Stories by William Trevor |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140290214?v=glance
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| | The Austin Chronicle Books: Book Reviews |
| | Trevor writes exquisitely of the disaffected, of the lonely people you notice only to pity and intend to invite over to dinner but never do. | | | Inarticulateness and a lack of questioning run through Trevor's characters; they waste little thought on how they arrived where they are, don't think to cry out against it. | | | A widower waits vainly for the return of the woman he hoped to marry, but she instead swindles him out of his meager savings. |
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http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2000-12-15/books_vsbr8.html
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| | The Greatest Literature of All Time - William Trevor |
| | A common theme for Trevor is his characters' acceptance or rejection of the abandonment of their hopes. | | | Trevor has continued publishing masterful stories and novels at the same pace into his seventies with: | | | The Greatest Literature of All Time - William Trevor |
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http://www.editoreric.com/greatlit/authors/Trevor.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Story of Lucy Gault: Books |
| | Trevor is surely one of the best three or four novelists writing in English. | | | As with all Trevor's books, it is beautifully written and his descriptions of the Cork coast and the emotions of a child are acutely observed. | | | But once again Trevor lifts his story-telling to the point where style and mere words collapse into content and a sense of power of fate. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141010436
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| | Amazon.ca: Fools of Fortune: Books |
| | Trevor weaves a tale of political intrique, love and self exile. | | | The fact that I'm unfamiliar with the Anglo-Irish history might have undermined my appreciation and comprehension (in a certain way) of this novel, nonetheless, this is a great book and should be recommended to those who love reading. | | | Furthermore, the wistfulness that infuses Crowley's reading is so in keeping with Trevor's work. |
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| | Stories formed by intersection of insight and circumstance |
| | Trevor specializes in the particular kind of heartbreak rendered unto lovers just slightly past their prime. | | | Like James Joyce before him, Trevor specializes in epiphanies, though Trevor's are more subtle, less overtly literary, more appropriate for a contemporary Ireland where characters seek sanctuary in Japanese cafes as often as smoky public houses and cathedrals. | | | In his new story collection, "A Bit on the Side," Trevor seems more willing than ever to forego the conventions of plot, preferring instead to tack his stories down with possessions, mementos or pawnshop bric-a-brac. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/17/RVGO6958H81.DTL
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| | Tragedy in Ireland |
| | It is perhaps the saddest story he has ever told, although even here redemption is possible—as in all his best work, quotidian acts of grace, and the language with which he describes them, trump fate and misfortune and loss. | | | William Trevor's thirteenth novel tells perhaps his saddest story yet | | | A wise reader, in other words, will hold this beautiful and devastating tale at a kind of emotional arm's length. |
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http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/10/mcdermott.htm
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| | The Weekly Standard |
| | William Trevor and the compulsion to tell other people's tales for them. | | | In his fiction, Trevor has a compulsion to "tell other people's stories for them" rather than to deliver his own judgments, whether literary or political. | | | Readers never discover the names of the lovers because the author represents them with the pronominal "he" and "she," which makes them simultaneously anonymous and intimate. |
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http://www.weeklystandard.com/Check.asp?idArticle=5133&r=vilpi
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| | Strand Bookstore: Bit On The Side; by William Trevor |
| | "[T]his latest collection of William Trevor's stories [is] as good as ever and as recognisable as ever....[A]bove all they deal in solitude, and how people try to break through it...." | | | Details of speech and quirks of behaviour are distilled down to their essence.....Trevor's characters have their emotions stretched out and dissected on every page, leaving us to marvel at his artistry and feel compassion for their souls." | | | His most recent novel, "The Story of Lucy Gault," was a Los Angeles Times Best Book 2002 and New York Times Notable Book. |
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http://www.strandbooks.com/profile?isbn=067003343X
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| | William Trevor |
| | His seven collections of previously short stories were brought together with four new stories as the Collected Stories of William Trevor (1992). | | | However, I realise you may be looking for current editions, so in-print books by William Trevor may be purchased directly from | | | The dates and publishers given here are for first editions. |
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| | A Bit on the Side: Stories by William Trevor PopMatters Book Review |
| | In the title story -- placed at the conclusion of the collection -- Trevor writes of the last day of a love affair, the final meeting between a woman and her married lover. | | | Bouverie but all of Trevor's characters: "'I'm sorry,' she had wanted to say, and did not know why she would have given anything not to have blurted out so much in the Box Tree Café. | | | She had longed to share his confidences with him, but had betrayed him even before he offered them." Trevor's trademark epiphany comes in the final moments, when Mr. |
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http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/b/bit-on-the-side.shtml
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| | Powell's Books - The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor |
| | "Trevor's smooth, spare prose captures the quirky workings of the heart, and compassion for the human condition mitigates the harsh blows that fate often deals his characters." | | | For in his stately depiction of a tragic tale that might, in other hands, seem overwrought, perhaps even overdetermined, Trevor has once again captured the terrible beauty of Ireland's fate, and the fate of us all — at the mercy of history, circumstance, and the vicissitudes of time." | | | Powell's Books - The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor |
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http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=26800&cgi=product&isbn=014200331x
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| | The Collected Stories |
| | His ability to place the reader into the hearts and souls of his characters is nothing short of remarkable. | | | I then knew I would read more William Trevor and ordered this book straight away. | | | No one weaves a tale as fine as William Trevor. |
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http://www.textbooksrus.com/search/bookdetail?isbn=0140232451
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| | A Bit on the Side - Reviewed by Kevin McGowin - Eclectica Magazine v9n1 |
| | If you don't know Trevor but you've read Lawrence, think of "Odour of Chysanthemums" or "Wintery Peacock" and there you have it—save for the fact that William Trevor is better. | | | You might, as I do, find Trevor's stories depresing as hell. | | | He has only one parallel in the history of the Story in English, and that's D.H. Lawrence. |
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| | Salon Books Death in Summer |
| | Early on, we understood that Felicia was a doomed victim. | | | The tension is palpable, the insight into character shrewd, the prose slyly seductive. | | | Upstairs or downstairs, these contemporary Britons seem to shuffle along, ever prey to overwhelming, unseen forces. |
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| | William Trevor's, 'A Bit on the Side' reviewed on official website of Laura Hird |
| | Arthurs is quite incapable of having any kind of normal relationship with anyone, but his ex-wife sits with him from time to time to hear how he murdered the complaining customer (which he didn’t), and grants him the grace of pity and a little companionship. | | | The twelve short stories in this collection can only reaffirm that Trevor ranks high among the greatest short story writers alive today. | | | Profile of Trevor on the Greatest Literature of All Time website |
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| | DesiJournal.com - The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor |
| | Trevor’s novel deals with fleeing both in the figurative and literal sense. | | | The Gaults flee from memories, they travel all over Europe and "set out upon a pilgrimage, absolution sought for sins that varied in the telling." Lucy at the same time is tormented by one question. | | | As the years pass, Lucy continues to exist and float along waiting forever, for forgiveness that takes its sweet time coming. |
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| | The Greatest Literature of All Time - Felicia's Journey |
| | One knows another death will take place and one hopes it will not be the infant's, but at the same time one wants to read on in order to find a larger picture in which such tragedies can be understood. | | | Her goodness is a greater mystery than the evil that distorted a man's every spoken word, his every movement made | | | In neither novel do we finally receive the complete picture but we get hints to help us grasp how certain parts of the mystery fit together. |
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http://www.editoreric.com/greatlit/books/Felicia.html
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| | Trevor, William on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Felicia's Journey: William Trevor's latest book is a thriller. | | | The side story: William Trevor and the compulsion to tell other people's tales for them.(Books and Arts)(A Bit on the Side: Stories)(Book Review) | | | Trevor's novels are usually set in England or Ireland, and he has often written of the troubles afflicting his native country. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/T/TrevorW1m.asp
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| | Books at Random House of Canada A Bit on the Side by William Trevor |
| | And as is always the case with William Trevor, venom and tragedy are never far from the still surface of the stories. | | | “Perfectly crafted stories… In his tenth book of stories William Trevor displays a matter-of-fact mastery. | | | “The greatest living writer in English is an Anglo-Irishman named William Trevor. |
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| | Fools of Fortune - William Trevor - Penguin Group (USA) |
| | In this award-winning novel, an informer’s body is found on the estate of a wealthy Irish family shortly after the First World War, and an appalling cycle of revenge is set in motion. | | | Penguin Classics is proud to welcome William Trevor—"Ireland’s answer to Chekhov" (The Boston Globe) and "one of the best writers of our era" (The Washington Post)—to our distinguished list of literary masters. | | | "William Trevor at his best." —The New York Times |
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http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140111811,00.html
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| | Reading Group Guide FELICIA'S JOURNEY by William Trevor |
| | In both his short stories and his novels, Trevor manages to shed light on the darkest corners of the human heart. | | | Trevor never describes what has happened to Mr. | | | It is no surprise, then, that with Felicia's Journey Trevor uses his gifts as a master storyteller—spare, lyrical prose; a tightly woven story; and finely drawn characters—to turn out this psychological thriller. |
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http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/felicias_journey.asp
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| | "Men of Ireland" by William Trevor |
| | As with every Trevor story, this one's foundation is the narrator's terse, pinpoint observations. | | | Instead, he had been fearful, diminished by the sins that so deeply stained his cloth, distrustful of his people. | | | Possibly, but certainly the story is not denying the truth of accusations of pedophilia in general. |
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Reviews Trevor's tragic tale |
| | You cannot easily describe The Story of Lucy Gault without spoiling its plot and while the book's strength is in its characters, the story itself is a page-turning race. | | | Yet The Story of Lucy Gault is a novel to be fond of: you cannot help caring deeply about the characters and the simple yet awful situation it conveys so starkly. | | | William Trevor zooms through the years from 1920s Ireland, when landowners were being driven out of the country, up to the edge of the present day with references to the internet. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/reviews/2333467.stm
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| | Penguin Reading Guides Two Lives William Trevor |
| | Delahunty tries to present herself as a simple woman, but fails to conceal the inner conflicts that animate her. | | | U.S. What is the difference between one's life story and the stories one tells? | | | Although his novels have received much recognition, Trevor describes himself as a "short story writer who likes writing novels," and he is revered as a master of the genre. |
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| | Felicia's Journey - William Trevor - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk |
| | Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year and Novel Awards 1994 • Felicia searches for the... | | | Felicia's Journey - William Trevor - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk | | | Home > Books and Magazines > Printed Books > Felicia's Journey - William Trevor |
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http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/printed-books/felicias-journey-william-trevor
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| | William Trevor |
| | Reading Guide to Death in Summer by William Trevor, Penguin-Putnam: Includes an introduction, a brief interview, and a collection of useful discussion questions.-MJM | | | "Trevor's Tragic Tale," by William Gallagher, BBC News: | | | William Trevor, BBCi: A bibliography followed by a listing of Trevor's literary awards, a short synopsis of Trevor's literary themes, and a brief description of his education and background.-MJM |
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http://library.marist.edu/diglib/english/englishliterature/20thc-britauthors/trevor-william.htm
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| | William Trevor |
| | White Knights, Dark Earls: The Rise and Fall of an Anglo-Irish Dynasty | | | by William Shakespeare, Trevor Gilchrist (Illustrator) (Paperback - May 1999) | | | The One Page Book of 'The Merchant of Venice' |
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| | eBook Titles - eBook Authors - William TREVOR eBooks |
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| | The Hill Bachelors - William Trevor - Penguin Group (USA) |
| | These beautifully rendered tales reveal Trevor's compassion for the human condition and confirm once again his position as one of the premier writers of the short story. | | | The Hill Bachelors - William Trevor - Penguin Group (USA) |
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| | FELICIA'S JOURNEY - William Trevor - Penguin UK |
| | William Trevor is an undisputed master of the short story but, perhaps, less known for his novels. | | | William Trevor is a master of both language and storytelling... | | | Mr Hilditch has seen them about: nutters, is his view. |
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http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140240245,00.html
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| | The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor - A Book Excerpt |
| | Book reviews and book excerpt for The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor, plus a reading group guide, author biography at BookBrowse.com. | | | The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor - A Book Excerpt | | | For some time afterwards Everard Gault slept in the afternoon and watched by night; and although no one disturbed his vigil, this concern with protection, and his wife's apprehension, created in the household further depths of disquiet, a nerviness that affected everyone, including in the end the household's child. |
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| | A Booker Potentate: William Trevor |
| | I am a Trevor fan and cannot wait to find the time to read his latest. | | | This time his story is favored to win the Man Booker Prize. | | | William Trevor already has a plethora of literary awards to his name, and he has recently been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. |
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| | William Trevor |
| | Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan: A Bibliography of their First Editions (1992) by David Rees | | | William Trevor: The Writer and His Work (1999) by Dolores MacKenna | | | In 1977 William Trevor received an honorary CBE in recognition of his services to literature, and in 1998 he was awarded the prestigious David Cohen British Literature Prize for a lifetime's achievement in writing. |
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| | Penguin Reading Guides The Story of Lucy Gault William Trevor |
| | The Story of Lucy Gault is set in provincial Ireland in the early 1920s at the height of civil turmoil and anti-English violence. | | | U.S. William Trevor has long been regarded as one of Ireland's most evocative writers, a prose stylist of the highest order with a Chekhovian awareness of the emotional undercurrents of his characters' lives. | | | Among his books are Two Lives, My House in Umbria, The Collected Stories, Felicia's Journey, After Rain, Death in Summer, and The Hill Bachelors. |
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http://www.idiotsguides.com/static/rguides/us/story_lucy_gault.html
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| | 'The Hill Bachelors' by William Trevor |
| | This distinguished Irish writer (“Felicia’s Journey,” “After Rain,” “Death in Summer”) peers into the depths of the psyche and in modest prose etches in fine detail the shadow of the motivation behind the simplest action -- the whisper of secrets never spoken but understood between two souls. | | | In “Le Visiteur,” Trevor once again makes the reader privy to the secret guarded by the characters who carry on a long-term relationship that would shatter if the simple truth were told. | | | Sadness tinges most of Trevor’s stories, but it is a sadness of hard-won insight. |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/books/reviews/20001119review629.asp
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