William Trevor (1928–2016)
Autor/a de The Story of Lucy Gault
Sobre l'autor
William Trevor Cox was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland on May 24, 1928. He received a degree in history from Trinity College in 1950. Before becoming a full-time author in 1965, he worked as a sculptor, a teacher, and a copywriter at an advertising agency. He exhibited his sculptures in mostra'n més Dublin and England and was joint winner of the International Year of the Political Prisoner art competition in 1952. His first novel, A Standard of Behaviour, was published in 1958. His other novels include Other People's Worlds, Nights at the Alexandra, The Silence in the Garden, The Story of Lucy Gault, My House in Umbria, and Love and Summer. He won the Hawthornden Prize in 1964 for The Old Boys, the Whitbread Award in 1976 for The Children of Dynmouth, the Whitbread Award in 1983 for Fools of Fortune, and the Whitbread Award in 1994 for Felicia's Journey. His short story collections include The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and Other Stories, The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories, Beyond the Pale, A Bit on the Side, Cheating at Canasta, and The Mark-2 Wife. The Hill Bachelors received the 2001 Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award for Short Stories. He received the Allied Irish Banks' Prize in 1976, The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in 1992, the David Cohen British Literature Prize in 1999, and the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award in Irish Literature in 2008. In 1977, he was awarded an honorary CBE in recognition of his services to literature. He died on November 20, 2016 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de William Trevor
Beyond the Pale [short story] 2 exemplars
William Trevor's Selected Stories 2 exemplars
Family Sins [short story] 2 exemplars
The Women 1 exemplars
August Saturday [short story] 1 exemplars
Citindul pe Turgheniev 1 exemplars
Children of the Headmaster [short story] 1 exemplars
DUKE LEXUAR TURGENIE VIN 1 exemplars
Dreaming 1 exemplars
Men of Ireland [short story] 1 exemplars
Her Mother's Daughter 1 exemplars
The Dressmaker's Child [short story] 1 exemplars
DUKE LEXUAR TURGENIEVININ 1 exemplars
Cheating at Canasta [short story] 1 exemplars
Coffee with Oliver [short story] 1 exemplars
the dance master 1 exemplars
"in the Public Interest" 1 exemplars
After rain 1 exemplars
Three early novels 1 exemplars
The story of Lucy Gault 1 exemplars
A Husband's Return [short story] 1 exemplars
Folie à Deux [short story] 1 exemplars
The Printmaker [short story] 1 exemplars
Old Flame [short story] 1 exemplars
The Grass Widows [short story] 1 exemplars
A Choice of Butchers [short story] 1 exemplars
Timothy's Birthday [short story] 1 exemplars
Mrs. Acland's Ghosts 1 exemplars
The Love of a Good Woman 1 exemplars
The Room [short story] 1 exemplars
Bravado [short story] 1 exemplars
An Afternoon [short story] 1 exemplars
At Olivehill [short story] 1 exemplars
A Perfect Relationship [short story] 1 exemplars
The Children [short story] 1 exemplars
Faith [short story] 1 exemplars
A Trinity [short story] 1 exemplars
A Meeting in Middle Age 1 exemplars
A Complicated Nature 1 exemplars
Mortifications (ROBERTSON) 1 exemplars
Trevor William 1 exemplars
Miss Smith [short story] 1 exemplars
Selected Stories Publisher: Viking Adult 1 exemplars
In Love with Ariadne [short story] 1 exemplars
За чертой 1 exemplars
Obres associades
A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement, Summer (1964) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 914 exemplars
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Col·laborador — 174 exemplars
Literary Traveller: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (1994) — Col·laborador — 53 exemplars
Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1990) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Cox, William Trevor
- Altres noms
- Trevor, William
- Data de naixement
- 1928-05-24
- Data de defunció
- 2016-11-20
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Ierland
- Lloc de naixement
- Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland
- Lloc de defunció
- Somerset, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland
Devon, England, UK - Educació
- Trinity College, Dublin
St. Columba's College, Dublin, Ireland - Professions
- teacher
sculptor
advertising copywriter
author
playwright
screenwriter - Premis i honors
- Royal Society of Literature Companion of Literature (1994)
David Cohen British Literature Prize (1999)
Lannan Literary Award ( [1996])
Order of the British Empire ( [1977])
Bennett Award (1990)
Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award in Irish Literature (2008) (mostra-les totes 9)
American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [2005])
Irish Book Award Lifetime Achievement (2008)
Honorary Knight of the British Empire (2002) - Agent
- PFD
Membres
Converses
Folio Archives 299: Beyond the Pale and Other Stories by William Trevor 2010 a Folio Society Devotees (desembre 2022)
Ressenyes
The Story of Lucy Gault de William Trevor
After recently reading Trevor's Collected Stories, I was impressed again at how good a writer he is. Understated, and understanding of the subtleties of Irish village life, this is a wonderful novel that traces what can happen when outside events occur to change ways of life that have existed for generations.
All these stories are of the highest standard. Trevor knows how to tease out the emotion and the hidden root causes of his character's disappointments, dependence and resignation to fates that life brings. Whether it is a blighted childhood, the cruelty of one's village or deception by those with power, most of these stories cut to the personal impacts that the writer is so adept at examining.
There are so many stories (80 plus) that it's hard to imagine ever tiring from re-reading them.
There are so many stories (80 plus) that it's hard to imagine ever tiring from re-reading them.
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ivanfranko | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Oct 25, 2023 |
ivanfranko | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Oct 25, 2023 | 
Although not a mystery writer in the usual sense, the late William Trevor was nevertheless a mystery writer. Each of the 10 stories in his final collection of short stories, “Last Stories,” is a little mystery, full of subtle clues that lead to a final resolution. Or don't. Sometimes the resolution, like the clues themselves, are so subtle readers may be left scratching their heads.
As in any good mystery, there is a lot of misdirection in Trevor's stories. Even the titles misdirect the reader. When the title refers to someone, the story is most often about someone else. "The Piano Teacher's Pupil," for example, is actually about the piano teacher, not the pupil. Once she had a lover who in time abandoned her, yet she treasures that time when he was hers. Now she has a student, more gifted than any other, who steals something each time he comes to her house. Yet she treasures having him as a pupil. Paradise comes at a price she's willing to pay.
"The Crippled Man," rather than being about the crippled man, is mostly about the woman who takes care of him, although it turns out that he is taking care of her.
In "The Unknown Girl," Trevor's focus falls on Harriet, a woman whose home this girl had sometimes cleaned before stepping into traffic and being killed. Gradually Harriet comes to realize that the girl's death may be related to her unrequited love for Harriet's son.
Trevor's stories are like paintings on which the artist adds a dab of paint here and a dab of paint there. Not until the final brushstroke does an observer realize what the painting reveals. At times he even refers to different characters in alternate sentences in the same paragraph, requiring careful reading (and rereading) to understand what exactly is going on.
His stories don't make easy reading, yet they are so tender, so beautiful, so delicate that they are all worth the effort.… (més)
As in any good mystery, there is a lot of misdirection in Trevor's stories. Even the titles misdirect the reader. When the title refers to someone, the story is most often about someone else. "The Piano Teacher's Pupil," for example, is actually about the piano teacher, not the pupil. Once she had a lover who in time abandoned her, yet she treasures that time when he was hers. Now she has a student, more gifted than any other, who steals something each time he comes to her house. Yet she treasures having him as a pupil. Paradise comes at a price she's willing to pay.
"The Crippled Man," rather than being about the crippled man, is mostly about the woman who takes care of him, although it turns out that he is taking care of her.
In "The Unknown Girl," Trevor's focus falls on Harriet, a woman whose home this girl had sometimes cleaned before stepping into traffic and being killed. Gradually Harriet comes to realize that the girl's death may be related to her unrequited love for Harriet's son.
Trevor's stories are like paintings on which the artist adds a dab of paint here and a dab of paint there. Not until the final brushstroke does an observer realize what the painting reveals. At times he even refers to different characters in alternate sentences in the same paragraph, requiring careful reading (and rereading) to understand what exactly is going on.
His stories don't make easy reading, yet they are so tender, so beautiful, so delicate that they are all worth the effort.… (més)
I only had time to read a few of the stories in this collection, and I would have loved to have had more time with it (I had a library copy - and not much time...)
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- Obres
- 115
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- 49
- Membres
- 12,121
- Popularitat
- #1,936
- Valoració
- 4.3
- Ressenyes
- 284
- ISBN
- 485
- Llengües
- 18
- Preferit
- 67