Felicia's Journey
A Novel
Perfectly executed and chilling... a sad and oddly moving tale of lost opportunities and misplaced hopes.-The New York TimesTrevor was our twentieth century Chekov.-Wall Street JournalFelicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She steals away from a small Irish town and drifts through the industrial English Midlands, searching for the boyfriend who left her. Instead she meets up with the fat, fiftyish, unfailingly reasonable Mr. Hilditch, who is looking for a new friend to join the five other girls in his Memory Lane. But the strange, sad, terrifying tricks of chance unravel both his and Felicia's delusions in a story that will magneti…
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- ISBN: 978-1-101-66684-5
- EAN: 9781101666845
- Produktnummer: 23074029
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'206 KB
Über den Autor
William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, and spent his childhood in provincial Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of twenty-nine books, including Felicia's Journey, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was made into a motion picture, and The Story of Lucy Gault, which was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread Fiction Prize. In 1996 he was the recipient of the Lannan Award for Fiction. In 2001, he won the Irish Times Literature Prize for fiction. Two of his books were chosen by The New York Times as best books of the year, and his short stories appeared regularly in the New Yorker. In 1997, he was named Honorary Commander of the British Empire.
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