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On sale Sep 01, 1998 | 384 Pages | 978-0-14-027759-3
William Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking.

William Trevor
has long been hailed as one of the greatest living writers of short fiction. These nineteen stories--selected by Trevor himself from The Collected Stories and After Rain--capture the nuances of rural and middle-class life in the Ireland he knows so well. Here are its people, their lives driven by love, faith, and duty, surviving in a culture that blends tradition with transformation. In spare and eloquent prose Trevor's stories engage and provoke us as only the best fiction can.
Ireland Author's Note
The Ballroom of Romance
The Distant Past
Teresa's Wedding
Death in Jerusalem
Downstairs at Fitzgerald's
Beyond the Pale
An Evening with John Joe Dempsey
Autumn Sunshine
The Paradise Lounge
Two More Gallants
The News from Ireland
The Third Party
Events at Drimaghleen
Family Sins
The Piano Tuner's Wives
Honeymoon in Tramore
Lost Ground
August Saturday
Kathleen's Field
© Jane Bown
William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, and spent his childhood in provincial Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin. He has written many novels and short story collections and has won many prizes, including the Hawthornden Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. The Story of Lucy Gault was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread Fiction Prize. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature. View titles by William Trevor

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William Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking.

William Trevor
has long been hailed as one of the greatest living writers of short fiction. These nineteen stories--selected by Trevor himself from The Collected Stories and After Rain--capture the nuances of rural and middle-class life in the Ireland he knows so well. Here are its people, their lives driven by love, faith, and duty, surviving in a culture that blends tradition with transformation. In spare and eloquent prose Trevor's stories engage and provoke us as only the best fiction can.

Table of Contents

Ireland Author's Note
The Ballroom of Romance
The Distant Past
Teresa's Wedding
Death in Jerusalem
Downstairs at Fitzgerald's
Beyond the Pale
An Evening with John Joe Dempsey
Autumn Sunshine
The Paradise Lounge
Two More Gallants
The News from Ireland
The Third Party
Events at Drimaghleen
Family Sins
The Piano Tuner's Wives
Honeymoon in Tramore
Lost Ground
August Saturday
Kathleen's Field

Author

© Jane Bown
William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, and spent his childhood in provincial Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin. He has written many novels and short story collections and has won many prizes, including the Hawthornden Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. The Story of Lucy Gault was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread Fiction Prize. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature. View titles by William Trevor

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