The Hill Bachelors
'The simpleminded gardener caught in a dark pact with the mistress of the house, the Church of Ireland reverend lost in his unpeopled parish, the predatory child-abuser actor using film-making to trap his girl victims, the absurd bookseller buffoon who secretly adores another man's wife . . . All the stories are intense, menacing in the very ordinariness of their detail . . . at times rising to epiphanies of delicate contact . . . Vintage Trevor' Evening Standard 'Trevor invites comparison with the great masters of short story. Like Chekhov, he has the power of getting into the skin of ordinary, unspecial, even rather dim people and showing…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-14-029469-9
- EAN: 9780140294699
- Produktnummer: 20571276
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.6 cm x D1.8 cm 178 g
- Gewicht: 178
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
William Trevor was born in County Cork in 1928 and spent his childhood in various provincial Irish towns. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and then to England in 1953. He now lives in Devon. In 1977 William Trevor received an honorary CBE in recognition of his services to literature, and in 1998 he was awarded the prestigious David Cohen British Literature Prize for a lifetime's achievement in writing.
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