The Hill Bachelors by William Trevor - ISBN: 9780140294699
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Lonely Irish lives revealed with subtle power, secrets, and quiet despair.

The Hill Bachelors

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    5 July 2001

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Summary

William Trevor’s new collection of stories is his first since the highly acclaimed AFTER RAIN. It contains a dozen new stories, mostly set in Ireland, that show Trevor at the height of his powers. With understatement and precision he writes about the lonely and the sad, about those that barely have control over their lives and those who have something to hide. In ‘Three People’ a father waits for the proposal for his daughter that will never come; in ‘Against the Odds’, a con-woman has busine…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780140294699
ISBN-10:0140294694
Author:William Trevor
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Edition:1st
Release Date:5 July 2001
Weight:200g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 15mm
About The Author

William Trevor

William Trevor was born in County Cork in 1928 and spent his childhood in various provincial Irish towns. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and then to England in 1953. He now lives in Devon. In 1977 William Trevor received an honorary CBE in recognition of his services to literature, and in 1998 he was awarded the prestigious David Cohen British Literature Prize for a lifetime’s achievement in writing.

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