After Rain
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Here is a new collection of twelve absorbing, deeply compassionate tales that reveal the subtle revenges of love and indifference, the deep wells of affection, and the strange, breathtaking tricks of chance that make up the texture of our lives. In the rain-washed Italian hills, a forgotten artist's Annunciation brings light to a heartbroken woman; insidiously, in her struggle for love, the second wife of a blind piano tuner distorts his memories of the first; two children, survivors of divorce, mimic their parents' dramas and passions; a mother, tied through love and fear to her son, watches with helpless dread as she realizes the monster he has become.
About this Author
William Trevor was born in Cork in 1928. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and has spent a great part of his life in Ireland. Since his first novel, The Old Boys, was awarded the Hawthorne Prize in 1964, he has received many honours for his work including the Royal Society of Literature Award, the allied Irish Banks Prize for Literature and the Whitbread Prize for fiction. He is a member of the Irish Academy of Letters and he has bee awarded an Honorary CBE. His most recent books are Two Lives and The Collected Stories of William Trevor.
Reviews
"My fiction may, now and again, illuminated aspects of the human condition, but I do not consistently set out to do so: I am a storyteller." --William Trevor
"Rich, riveting...exquisitely crafted... With each new [book his] style becomes more beguiling... The reader basks in the glow of Trevor's compassion and the consummate integrity of his pure, poetic skills." --The Globe and Mail
"How wise and wry and funny and morally astute an observer of the human comedy he is." --The New York Times Book Review
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