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The author is described as 'the greatest living writer of short stories in English language' by "New Yorker" and acclaimed for his haunting and profound insights into human heart. This title offers a collection of his short fiction, with dozens of tales spanning his career and ranging from the moving to the macabre, the humorous to the haunting.

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An unmarried Irish girl, pregnant and penniless, drifting through the industrial English Midlands in search of the boyfriend who left her, instead meets Mr. Hilditch, fat, fiftyish, unfailingly reasonable--who is looking for a new friend to join the other girls of his "Memory Lane". "Perfectly executed and chilling".--New York Times.

Das Vermächtnis und geniale Abschiedsgeschenk eines großen SchriftstellersWilliam Trevors Erzählungen beleuchten die Abgründe menschlichen Daseins und werfen Licht auf Momente von existentieller Bedeutung. Da ist etwa das Mädchen, dessen tot geglaubte Mutter sich als höchst lebendig und kerngesund herausstellt. Oder die Klavierlehrerin, die die Diebstähle ihres Schülers stillschweigend hinnimmt, weil er so wunderbar spielt. Der italienische Ca...

Love and Summer - a remarkable, heart-rending novel by acclaimed writer William Trevor'Lingers in the memory as a beautiful meditation on love, belonging and the impossibility of escape' Observer'Unbearably moving' SpectatorIt is summer and a stranger has come to quiet Rathmoye. He is noticed by Ellie, the young convent girl, who is married to Dillahan, a farmer still mourning his first wife. Over the long and warm days, Ellie and the stranger...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKThe beloved and acclaimed William Trevor's last ten stories"The great Irish writer, who died in 2016 at the age of 88, captured turning points in individual lives with effective understatement. This seemingly quiet but ultimately volcanic collection is his final gift to us, and it is filled with action sprung from human feeling."-The New York Times Book ReviewWith a career that spanned more than half a century, Wil...

Full of hope, seventeen-year old Felicia crosses the Irish sea to the English Midlands in search of her lover Johnny to tell him she is pregnant. Unable to find him, alone and desperate, she is found instead by Mr. Hilditch, an obese catering manger, collector and befriender of homeless girls, who is also searching -- in a way Felicia could never have imagined...

William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland, in 1928. He is the author of fourteen much-lauded novels: he won the Whitbread Prize three times and was short-listed for the Booker Prize four times. Trevor was widely recognized to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the English language. In 1999 William Trevor received the prestigious David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement, and...

With a career that spanned more than half a century, William Trevor is regarded as one of the best writers of short stories in the English language. Now, in Last Stories, the master storyteller delivers ten exquisitely rendered tales-nine of which have never been published in book form-that illuminate the human condition and will surely linger in the listener's mind.

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William Trevor è un degno e diretto erede di Cechov, Maupassant e del James Joyce di 'Gente di Dublino'. Grande cronista contemporaneo della condizione umana, ne esalta il pathos, i tratti comici e le stranezze. Guarda il mondo con occhio sempre stupito, parteggiando per quelle anime complesse e misteriosamente ferite che non riescono a gestire la vita di ogni giorno, ovvero tutti noi... La scelta dei testi qui presentati offre un panorama var...

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKThe beloved and acclaimed William Trevor's last ten stories"The great Irish writer, who died in 2016 at the age of 88, captured turning points in individual lives with effective understatement. This seemingly quiet but ultimately volcanic collection is his final gift to us, and it is filled with action sprung from human feeling."-The New York Times Book ReviewWith a career that spanned more than half a century, Wil...