Love and Summer
An author who has received international critical acclaim for his exquisite prose, William Trevor saw his novel The Story of Lucy Gault short-listed for the prestigious Booker Prize. Love and Summer tells the tale of Ellie Dillahan, an orphan entered into a bleak future with the man she wed. As...
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An author who has received international critical acclaim for his exquisite prose, William Trevor saw his novel The Story of Lucy Gault short-listed for the prestigious Booker Prize. Love and Summer tells the tale of Ellie Dillahan, an orphan entered into a bleak future with the man she wed. As the story unfolds, Ellie's life isthrown into tumult by a fateful encounter with another man."What other living writer could so regularly follow his own masterpieces ...with another and another?"—New York Times Book Review
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781101148532 (1101148535)
Publish date: September 17th 2009
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Irish Literature,
Contemporary,
Ireland
It is during a funeral in the quiet little town of Rathmoye that Ellie first meets the stranger. A young man who has come there to take pictures of the burned out cinema.Ellie is an orphan, married to Dillahan, a farmer who is still struggling with the death of his first wife, seven years earlier.W...
First line: On a June evening some years after the middle of the last century Mrs Eileen Connulty passed through the town of Rathmoye: from Number 4 The Square to Magennis Street into Hurley Lane, along Irish Street, across Cloughjordan Road to the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer.A slice of life in...
To quote Eliza; "On reading Love and Summer once, I felt that it slid by me--washed over me--didn't stick. But still, it resonated."
Beautifully written, somewhat elegiac. Think of Brief Encounter set in 1950's Ireland, only with bicycles instead of the train.
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