After Rain
William Trevor has long been hailed as one of the greatest living writers of short story. In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, he once again plumbs the depths of the human heart. Here we encounter a blind piano turner whose wonderful memories of his first wife are...
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William Trevor has long been hailed as one of the greatest living writers of short story. In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, he once again plumbs the depths of the human heart. Here we encounter a blind piano turner whose wonderful memories of his first wife are cruelly distorted by his second; a woman in a difficult marriage who must choose between her indignant husband and her closest friend; two children, survivors of divorce, who mimic their parents' melodramas; and a heartbroken woman traveling alone in Italy who experiences an epiphany while studying a forgotten artists's Annunciation.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670870073 (0670870072)
Publish date: October 1st 1996
Publisher: Viking Books
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
William Trevor is an author who has quietly crept up on me over the years and it appears I am softly comfortable under the spell of his nib.3* Love and Summer3* The Collected StoriesWL After Rain3* Cheating at Canasta3* A Bit on the Side4* Death in Summer3* My House in Umbria3* Reading Turgenev3* An...
The theme of this collection seems to be: people need to hurt those close to them in order to feel any kind of self-respect or control over their lives. And the injured parties just roll over and take it as their due. If the imagery was more striking I could handle the irritatingly mopey attitudes, ...