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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 06/06/2019
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ISBN: 9780241337783
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Length: 224 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm
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Weight: 159g
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RRP: £8.99
'What a writer he was; he could flip over a sentence so gently, and showthe underbelly in a heartbeat. His work is always quietly compassionate' Elizabeth Strout
In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the depths of the human spirit. Here we encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed dead is alive and well; and a piano-teacher who accepts her pupil's theft in exchange for his beautiful music. These gorgeous stories - the last that Trevor wrote before his death - affirm his place as one of the world's greatest storytellers.
'Trevor is a master of both language and storytelling' Hilary Mantel
'He is one of the great short-story writers, at his best the equal of Chekhov' John Banville
'The greatest living writer of short stories in the English language' New Yorker
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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 06/06/2019
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ISBN: 9780241337783
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Length: 224 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm
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Weight: 159g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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None but those with a complete mastery of fiction can walk this line. William Trevor was not "an Irish Chekhov" or even "the Irish Chekhov". He was and will remain the Irish William Trevor
Julian Barnes, Guardian
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10 stories bring a literary career that lasted more than half a century to a consummate conclusion
Peter Kemp, Sunday Times
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William Trevor's prose runs as clear as water yet tastes like gin
Economist
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Extraordinary stories from ordinary lives
The Times
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One of the great contemporary chroniclers of the human condition, in all its pathos, comedy and strangeness. As a writer he looked at the world with an always surprised but never scandalised eye, and his writer's heart was with those awkward and obscurely damaged souls who cannot quite manage the business of everyday life - all of us, that is
John Banville, New Statesman
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There are those rare, exceptional writers who are fortunate enough (like their readers) to burn bright and steady over many decades, expressing the same creative clarity at the end of their careers as they did at the beginning. William Trevor was one of those writers
LA Times
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We honor him as the supreme master of his honest art
Cynthia Ozick
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Trevor is a master of both language and storytelling
Hilary Mantel
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He is one of the great short-story writers, at his best the equal of Chekhov
John Banville
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A beautiful writer... I would not have become a writer at all had I not discovered his work.
Yiyun Li
