Last Stories
Autor William Trevoren Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 dec 2019
In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the depths of the human spirit. Here we encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed dead is alive and well; and a piano-teacher who accepts her pupil's theft in exchange for his beautiful music. These gorgeous stories - the last that Trevor wrote before his death - affirm his place as one of the world's greatest storytellers.
'Trevor is a master of both language and storytelling'Hilary Mantel
'He is one of the great short-story writers, at his best the equal of Chekhov'John Banville
'The greatest living writer of short stories in the English language'New Yorker
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780525558125
ISBN-10: 0525558128
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 131 x 193 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Transworld Publishers Ltd
ISBN-10: 0525558128
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 131 x 193 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Notă biografică
William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, in 1928 and spent his childhood in provincial Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of fourteen novels and thirteen collections of short stories, and he has won many prizes. His short stories appeared regularly in The New Yorker, and his Collected Stories was chosen by the editors of The New York Times Book Review as a Best Book of the Year. His novels include Love and Summer, nominated for the Man Booker Prize and selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; The Story of Lucy Gault, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, the Whitbread Fiction Prize, and also selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; and Death in Summer, a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book of the Year.
Recenzii
None
but
those
with
a
complete
mastery
of
fiction
can
walk
this
line.
William
Trevor
was
not
"an
Irish
Chekhov"
or
even
"the
Irish
Chekhov".
He
was
and
will
remain
the
Irish
William
Trevor
10 stories bring a literary career that lasted more than half a century to a consummate conclusion
William Trevor's prose runs as clear as water yet tastes like gin
Extraordinary stories from ordinary lives
One of the great contemporary chroniclers of the human condition, in all its pathos, comedy and strangeness. As a writer he looked at the world with an always surprised but never scandalised eye, and his writer's heart was with those awkward and obscurely damaged souls who cannot quite manage the business of everyday life - all of us, that is
There are those rare, exceptional writers who are fortunate enough (like their readers) to burn bright and steady over many decades, expressing the same creative clarity at the end of their careers as they did at the beginning. William Trevor was one of those writers
We honor him as the supreme master of his honest art
In the first few paragraphs of a story he could set an entire scene without seeming to, working on details, small moments, odd thoughts. As in the work of Alice Munro, there often seemed to be very little happening in his fiction, but then he was capable of offering the reader a sense of an immense drama
His stories are formally beautiful and, at the same time, interested in the smallness of human lives. He was, as a writer, watchful, unsentimental, alert to frailty and malice. A master craftsman
Trevor is a master of both language and storytelling
He is one of the great short-story writers, at his best the equal of Chekhov
The strength of all his writing was an unshowy perfection of style, through which he expressed his unerring instinct for fairness. His total lack of self-importance allowed him to express what was important in the world around him. He was one of the greatest writers about justice and suffering, disguised as an ordinary person
A beautiful writer... I would not have become a writer at all had I not discovered his work.
The man - the work - was brilliant, elegant, surprising, reliable, precise, stark, often sad, sometimes funny, shocking and even frightening
There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world
Writers often get asked which authors they return to again and again, their comfort books if you will, the ones that make them remember why fiction matters. William Trevor, I have answered on countless occasions. His stories. Any of them
He is, I think, sui generis, and in his 12 collections (and 13 novels, and two novellas: an exhibition of near-Updikean energy), he has created a version of the short story that almost ignores the form's hundred or so years of intricate evolution. These stories stay in the mind long after they're finished because they're so solid, so deliberately shaped and directed so surely toward their solemn, harsh conclusions
A posthumous collection of stories by the Irish writer reflects his formidable craft
What you might call Trevor's parting shots are as robustly vivid and potent, as wistful and emotionally rigorous, as his more youthful oeuvre
William Trevor, master of the short story, was at the top of his game in his final decade
William Trevor's short fiction was the stuff of legend
Trevor's prose style is effortless, elegant and economical, but manages to contain the most hugely difficult feelings: jealousy, guilt and yearning regret
An Irish writer, an international writer, a great writer. Put bluntly, he is revered by writers
10 stories bring a literary career that lasted more than half a century to a consummate conclusion
William Trevor's prose runs as clear as water yet tastes like gin
Extraordinary stories from ordinary lives
One of the great contemporary chroniclers of the human condition, in all its pathos, comedy and strangeness. As a writer he looked at the world with an always surprised but never scandalised eye, and his writer's heart was with those awkward and obscurely damaged souls who cannot quite manage the business of everyday life - all of us, that is
There are those rare, exceptional writers who are fortunate enough (like their readers) to burn bright and steady over many decades, expressing the same creative clarity at the end of their careers as they did at the beginning. William Trevor was one of those writers
We honor him as the supreme master of his honest art
In the first few paragraphs of a story he could set an entire scene without seeming to, working on details, small moments, odd thoughts. As in the work of Alice Munro, there often seemed to be very little happening in his fiction, but then he was capable of offering the reader a sense of an immense drama
His stories are formally beautiful and, at the same time, interested in the smallness of human lives. He was, as a writer, watchful, unsentimental, alert to frailty and malice. A master craftsman
Trevor is a master of both language and storytelling
He is one of the great short-story writers, at his best the equal of Chekhov
The strength of all his writing was an unshowy perfection of style, through which he expressed his unerring instinct for fairness. His total lack of self-importance allowed him to express what was important in the world around him. He was one of the greatest writers about justice and suffering, disguised as an ordinary person
A beautiful writer... I would not have become a writer at all had I not discovered his work.
The man - the work - was brilliant, elegant, surprising, reliable, precise, stark, often sad, sometimes funny, shocking and even frightening
There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world
Writers often get asked which authors they return to again and again, their comfort books if you will, the ones that make them remember why fiction matters. William Trevor, I have answered on countless occasions. His stories. Any of them
He is, I think, sui generis, and in his 12 collections (and 13 novels, and two novellas: an exhibition of near-Updikean energy), he has created a version of the short story that almost ignores the form's hundred or so years of intricate evolution. These stories stay in the mind long after they're finished because they're so solid, so deliberately shaped and directed so surely toward their solemn, harsh conclusions
A posthumous collection of stories by the Irish writer reflects his formidable craft
What you might call Trevor's parting shots are as robustly vivid and potent, as wistful and emotionally rigorous, as his more youthful oeuvre
William Trevor, master of the short story, was at the top of his game in his final decade
William Trevor's short fiction was the stuff of legend
Trevor's prose style is effortless, elegant and economical, but manages to contain the most hugely difficult feelings: jealousy, guilt and yearning regret
An Irish writer, an international writer, a great writer. Put bluntly, he is revered by writers