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Death
in Summer
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ISBN: 067088202X (USA); 014027720x (UK) |
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books by this author: After Rain (1997) 0140258345 Angels At The Ritz , And Other Stories (1975) 0370106032 The Ballroom Of Romance (1972) 0370014865 Beyond The Pale, And Other Stories (1982) 037030442X The Boarding House (1968) 0140107495 Children Of Dynmouth (1979) 0140047182 Cocktails At Doney's , And Other Stories (1996) 0747529116 Collected Stories (1993) 014015857X The Day We Got Drunk On Cake (1967) 0370006232 Death Of A Professor (1997) 187412227X The Distant Past, And Other Stories (1987) X000127442 Elizabeth Alone (1988) 0140097562 Excursions In The Real World (1994) 014023845X Family Sins And Other Stories (1990) 0370313747 Felicia's Journey (1995) 0140240241 Fools Of Fortune (1984) 0140111816 Ireland, Selected Stories (1995) 0140242635 Juliet's Story (1995) 0862784573 The Love Department (1970 0140031308 Lovers Of Their Time, And Other Stories (1978) 037030134X Making Conversation (1995) ********** Marrying Damien (1995) 1874122180 Miss Gomez And The Brethren (1997) 0140252649 Mrs. Eckdorf In O'Neills Hotel (1973) 0140060146 The News From Ireland, And Other Stories (1987) 0140105786 Nights At The Alexandra (1988) 0099600102 The Old Boys (1975) 0370105915 Other People's Worlds (1982) 0140106693 Outside Ireland, Selected Stories (1995) 0140242627 Reading Turgenev (1991) 0670845434 The Silence In The Garden (1990) 0140120653 A Standard Of Behaviour (1982) 0349133891 The Stories Of William Trevor (1983) 0140060928 Two Lives, Reading Turgenev And My House In Umbria (1992) 0140153721 |
There were three deaths that summer.
The first was Letitia's, sudden and unexpected, leaving her husband Thaddeus
haunted by the details of her last afternoon, a drizzling Thursday in
June. They had spent it arguing in their comfortable house in the country
until Thaddeus reluctantly promised to visit a woman from his past - a
promise he had no intention of keeping. The next death came some weeks
later, after Thaddeus's mother-in-law had helped him to interview the
young women who had answered their advertisement for a nanny to look after
Letitia's baby. None was suitable - least of all the last one, with her
small sharp features, her shabby clothes that reeked of cigarettes, her
badly typed references - so Letitia's mother moved in herself. But then,
just as the household was beginning to settle down, the last of the nannies
surprisingly returned, her unwelcome arrival heralding the third of the
summer tragedies. William Trevor's new novel, his first since Felicia's
Journey, is a riveting and wonderfully sympathetic portrait of the
sadness and damage that lie at the heart of some lives - both those that
are obviously afflicted and those that appear to be blessed.
William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, in 1928, and spent his Irish childhood in provincial Ireland. He attended a number of Irish schools and later Trinity College, Dublin. He is a member of the Irish Academy of Letters. His published works include novels and short stories and he has also written plays for the stage, and for radio and television. In 1977, he was named honorary commander of the British Empire in recognition of his services to literature and in 1996 received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. William Trevor lives in Devon, England. |
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