Synopsis
About William Trevor
See more books from this AuthorIn one story, a Protestant boy relates the manifestation of a saint to a priest, who wonders idly why it couldn’t have been a good Catholic boy to receive a sign of visitation: “Was it not enough that that march should occur every twelfth of July, that farmers from miles away should bang their wa...
| Read Full Review of Selected StoriesIt doesn’t select anything, strictly speaking, but merely assembles the stories from William Trevor’s last four collections, so that in effect it’s a sequel to the huge edition of his collected stories that came out in 1992.
Nov 26 2010 | Read Full Review of Selected StoriesConsolidating the four collections that have appeared since his "Collected Stories" of 1992, "Selected Stories" is crowded with hundreds of characters, but the one man who never seems to poke a head in is William Trevor.
Dec 18 2010 | Read Full Review of Selected StoriesHenry Prizes, three Whitbread Prizes, and the recognition as “the greatest living writer of short stories in the English Language” to his credit.
Nov 04 2010 | Read Full Review of Selected StoriesBringing together forty-eight stories from After Rain, The Hill Bachelors, A Bit on the Side, and Cheating at Canasta, this second volume of Trevor's collected fiction offers readers "treasures of gorgeous writing, brilliant dialogue, and unforgettable lives" (The New York Times ...
Nov 07 2010 | Read Full Review of Selected StoriesThe range is quite wide: gentry, faded gentry, farmers, fishermen, servants, businessmen, Protestants, Catholics, clergymen, crooks, men and women, old and young.
Sep 20 2011 | Read Full Review of Selected StoriesReading something next, that’s the easy part, particularly if you’re one of those readers for whom the prospect of not reading something, anything, is just, well, unthinkable.
Jan 18 2011 | Read Full Review of Selected StoriesAn aggregated and normalized score based on 25 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes