William Trevor: 39 books

The Children Of Dynmouth - a classic prize-winning novel by William Trevor Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. The 1970s was a decade of anger and discontent. Britain endured power cuts and strikes. America pulled out of Vietnam and saw its President...

**A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The 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...

**A collection of short stories from celebrated author William Trevor in which he shines a light on the day-to-day life of Ireland and its citizens. ** From his debut collection, “The Day We Got Drunk on Cake,” published in 1968, to “Family Sins” (1990), William Trevor has crafted...

Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor. Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking. "There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world."—Wall Street Journal In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumbs...

Considerado o melhor romance de William Trevor, A jornada de Felícia envolve o leitor com uma trama pontuada por suspense e mistérioUma adolescente grávida deixa a Irlanda rumo à Inglaterra em busca do pai de seu filho. Sem um endereço e apenas com a informação de que seu namorado trabalha...

«William Trevor è un degno e diretto erede di Čechov, 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...

William Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking. One of our finest chroniclers of the human condition, Trevor's precise and unflinching insights into the lives of ordinary people are evidenced once again in this stunning collection of twelve stories. Subtle yet powerful, these exquisitely...

A New York Times Bestseller and Notable Book   From the winner of the 1999 David Cohen British Literature Prize comes an unforgettably chilling novel, written with the compassion and artistry that define Trevor's fiction. There were three deaths that summer. The first was Letitia’s, sudden...

A marvelous collection from "the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language" (The New Yorker). Four-time winner of the O. Henry Prize, three-time winner of the Whitbread Prize, and five-time finalist for the Man Booker Prize, William Trevor is one of the most...

Cynique, pervers et sans complexe, le jeune Timothy Gedge s’introduit chez ses voisins dans l’idée de détruire la fade tranquillité de leurs jours et de leurs nuits. Gosse inquisiteur, il les épie, les harcèle et lance d’affreuses rumeurs... et bientôt, c’est toute la paisible ville...

«Il miglior autore contemporaneo di racconti.» John Banville «Il racconto sembra essere il genere fatto su misura per il talento di Trevor.» The Spectator «Trevor, come Čechov, ha la capacità di penetrare nell'animo dei personaggi più comuni, consueti, a volte perfino spenti...

**"The Story of Lucy Gault . . . once read, will never be forgotten."—The Washington Post Book World "Trevor was our twentieth century Chekov."—Wall Street Journal** The stunning novel from highly acclaimed author William Trevor is a brilliant, subtle, and moving story of love, guilt,...

**"Perfectly executed and chilling... a sad and oddly moving tale of lost opportunities and misplaced hopes.""—The New York Times “Trevor was our twentieth century Chekov."—Wall Street Journal** Felicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She steals away from a small Irish town...

William Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking. In these twelve stories, a waiter divulges a shocking life of crime to his ex-wife; a woman repeats the story of her parents’ unstable marriage after a horrible tragedy; a schoolgirl regrets gossiping about the cuckolded man who tutors...