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William Trevor


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. His most recent novel, 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. He lives in Devon, England.

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Love and Summer
Written by William Trevor

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39841-3 (0-307-39841-2)

June 15, 2010 | $21.00

(Available June 15, 2010)


The inimitable William Trevor returns with a story of suspicion, guilt, forbidden love and the possibility of starting over.

It’s summer, and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn’t go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger begins photographing the mourners at Mrs. Connulty’s funeral. Florian Kilderry couldn’t know that the...

Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.

Love and Summer
Written by William Trevor

eBook | pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37316-8 (0-307-37316-9)

August 25, 2009 | $32.00



The inimitable William Trevor returns with a story of suspicion, guilt, forbidden love and the possibility of starting over.

It’s summer, and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn’t go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger begins photographing the mourners at Mrs. Connulty’s funeral. Florian Kilderry couldn’t know that the...

Also available as a hardcover and a trade paperback.

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Love and Summer
Written by William Trevor

Hardcover | 224 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39840-6 (0-307-39840-4)

August 25, 2009 | $32.00



The inimitable William Trevor returns with a story of suspicion, guilt, forbidden love and the possibility of starting over.

It’s summer, and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn’t go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger begins photographing the mourners at Mrs. Connulty’s funeral. Florian Kilderry couldn’t know that the...

Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

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Cheating at Canasta
Written by William Trevor

Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-39665-5 (0-307-39665-7)

September 16, 2008 | $21.00



A husband sits in Harry’s Bar in Venice, thinking of his wife-lost to him now-whose plea has brought him back to one of their favourite haunts. At another table, a young couple quarrel. “Cheating at Canasta” is the title story of William Trevor’s new collection, his first since the highly acclaimed...


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A Bit on the Side
Written by William Trevor

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-676-97670-0 (0-676-97670-0)

September 13, 2005 | $21.00



William Trevor’s stunning new collection of stories displays this renowned craftsman at the peak of his powers. A middle-aged couple meet in a theatre bar for a squalid blind date; a disappointed priest fears an innocent young girl may run away from home; two self-certain sisters visit a newly widowed local...


The Story of Lucy Gault
Written by William Trevor

Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97546-8 (0-676-97546-1)

September 30, 2003 | $21.00



In the early morning of June the twenty-first, nineteen twenty-one, three arsonists — shadows in the night -- arrive at Lahardane, the home of Captain Everard Gault, his wife, Heloise, and daughter, Lucy. The sheepdogs that alarmed the Gaults of previous trespasses had since been poisoned. On this occasion, though, it...


The Hill Bachelors
Written by William Trevor

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97330-3 (0-676-97330-2)

October 9, 2001 | $19.95



From the pre-eminent author of Felicia’s Journey and Death in Summer, the first major collection of stories since the highly acclaimed After Rain.

With understatement and startling precision William Trevor writes about longing and sadness, the loving and the lonely, those who barely have control over their lives and those who have...


Death In Summer
Written by William Trevor

Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97236-8 (0-676-97236-5)

September 14, 1999 | $19.95



From the winner of the 1999 David Cohen British Literature Prize — the richest literary award in the UK — 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, shocking and sudden, leaving her husband haunted...


After Rain
Written by William Trevor

Trade Paperback | 220 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97025-8 (0-676-97025-7)

September 8, 1997 | $19.95



Here is a new collection of twelve absorbing, deeply compassionate tales that reveal the subtle revenges of love and indifference, the deep wells of affection, and the strange, breathtaking tricks of chance that make up the texture of our lives. In the rain-washed Italian hills, a forgotten artist's Annunciation brings light...


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Felicia's Journey
Written by William Trevor

Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-394-28123-0 (0-394-28123-3)

December 10, 1995 | $19.95



Full of hope, seventeen-year old Felicia crosses the Irish sea to the English Midlands in search of her lover Johnny to tell him she is pregnant. Unable to find him, alone and desperate, she is found instead by Mr. Hilditch, an obese catering manger, collector and befriender of homeless girls, who...


Excursions In The Real World
Written by William Trevor

Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-394-28045-5 (0-394-28045-8)

November 15, 1994 | $19.95



These autobiographical tales are about people and places, personal fascinations and enthusiasms, that have remained snagged in William Trevor's memory over the years.

He writes here of childhood and youth, of his schools and university days, his early life in Dublin and London, of Ireland and of England. Most of the portraits...


              
              



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