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After rain / William Trevor.
LIBRA - Special PR6070.R4 A6 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trevor, William, 1928-2016.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, Irish--20th century.
- Short stories, Irish.
- Ireland--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Ireland.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 212 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Penguin Books, 1997, c1996.
- Summary:
- A dozen stories from an Irish writer. In Gilbert's Mother, a woman discovers her son rapes and kills, but decides not to denounce him because it's partly her fault, she brought him into this world, while The Potato Dealer is on a man's reaction to his wife's confession that a baby is not his.
- Contents:
- The piano tuner's wives
- A friendship
- Timothy's birthday
- Child's play
- A bit of business
- After rain
- Widows
- Gilbert's mother
- The potato dealer
- Lost ground
- A day
- Marrying Damian.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : Viking, 1996.
- ISBN:
- 0140258345
- 9780140258349
- OCLC:
- 38846177
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