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After Rain: Stories Features
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Penguin Books
About After Rain: Stories
Product Description This is a remarkable collection of twelve new stories, mostly set in Ireland, which was greeted with universal acclamation when published in hardcover in 1996. The title story is a small, sad masterpiece, about a woman holidaying alone in an Italian hotel. "A dazzling collection of short stories" - "Sunday Times". Review "There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world."— Wall Street Journal "Everyone will have his own list of the best short stories. Mine includes most of Chekhov, one or two by James Joyce, a dozen or more from D. H. Lawrence and -- in this same vein -- a healthy selection from William Trevor. This Irish-born, English-domiciled writer, who is also an excellent novelist, gave us his ''Collected Stories'' a few years back. Now, as if to assure us that the well is far from dry, he offers a luminously disturbing new collection, ''After Rain.'' -- Wendy Lesser, The New York Times Book Review"The deft handling of information, as well as the exquisite sense of control, again show Trevor as a brilliant master of his craft." - Publishers Weekly (Starred) "Dependably brilliant work from one of Chekhov's most accomplished disciples." - Kirkus Reviews About the Author 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 won many prizes, including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. His most recent novel, The Story of Lucy Gault (2002), was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread Fiction Prize. He is a celebrated short-story writer, and his two most recent collections are The Hill Bachelors (2000), which won the Macmillan Silver Pen Award and the Irish Times Literature Prize, and A Bit on the Side (2004). Both are available in Penguin, as is his Collected Stories. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Praise for After Rain “With his exquisite control of language and unsparing vision, Trevor serves up the pain of ordinary life with such precision that it feels like a physical ache to comprehend it. . . . What you have in this collection then, is something small and perfect.” —The Washington Post Book World “A dazzling collection of short stories.” —Geordie Greig, The Sunday Times Pick of the Year (London) “Like the Old Masters, Trevor creates moments that are evocative and incandescent. His messages linger and hang in the air.” —People magazine “William Trevor is among the most accessible of Britain’s most distinguished contemporary writers. His prose is enviably simple and clear. He writes for the reader rather than for himself or his literary peers. . . . If you don’t know his work, After Rain would be a fine place to get acquainted.” —Providence Sunday Journal “William Trevor shows himself as a master of domestic horror. . . . Behind closed doors, people live lives of quiet happiness or despair, and within their own walls unspeakable horrors scuttle around.” —Clare Boylan, The Independent (London) “The stories here are among Trevor’s finest.” —John Banville, The New York Review of Books “A poet of prose fictions . . . Whether he is writing about a boy who believes he has been kissed by the ghost of a female saint, or the two rival wives of a blind piano-tuner . . . or a pair of petty thieves plying their trade in the suburbs of Dublin, the manner of these stories is specific and shocking and matter-of-fact. . . . Trevor at the top of his form.” —Robert Nye, The Times (London) “A wonderfully affecting new collection of twelve stories by the Anglo-Irish master. . . . Dependably brilliant work from one of Chekhov’s most accomplished disciples.” —Kirkus Reviews “Few writers have so deftly crafted as important or widely praised a body of work that continually illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche as it g
