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The collected stories / William Trevor.
LIBRA - Special PR6070.R4 A6 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trevor, William, 1928-2016.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories.
- Genre:
- Short stories, Irish.
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 1261 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, 1993.
- Summary:
- This collection includes tales from the award-winning author's seven previous books of short stories, as well as four that have never appeared in paperback form in America. Startling, funny, compassionate, and profound, Trevor's stories engage and provoke as only the best fiction can.
- Contents:
- A meeting in middle age
- Access to the children
- The general's day
- Memories of Youghal
- The table
- A school story
- The penthouse apartment
- In at the birth
- The introspections of J.P. Powers
- The day we got drunk on cake
- Miss Smith
- The hotel of the idle moon
- Nice day at school
- The original sins of Edward Tripp
- The forty seventh Saturday
- The ballroom of romance
- A happy family
- The grass widows
- The mark 2 wife
- An evening with John Joe Dempsey
- Kinkies
- Going home
- A choice of butchers
- O fat white woman
- Raymond Bamber and Mrs Fitch
- The distant past
- In Isfahan
- Angels at the Ritz
- The death of Peggy Meehan
- Mrs. Silly
- A complicated nature
- Teresa's wedding
- Office romances
- Mr. McNamara
- Afternoon dancing
- Last wishes
- Mrs. Acland's ghosts
- Another Christmas
- Broken homes
- The tennis court
- The summer house
- The drawing room
- Torridge
- Death in Jerusalem
- Lovers of their time
- The raising of Elvira Tremlett
- Flights of fancy
- Attracta
- A dream of butterflies
- The bedroom eyes of Mrs Vansittart
- Downstairs at Fitzgerald's
- Mulvihill's memorial
- Beyond the pale
- The blue dress
- The teddy bears picnic
- The time of year
- Being stolen from
- Mr. Tennyson
- Autumn sunshine
- Sunday drinks
- The Paradise Lounge
- Mags
- The news from Ireland
- On the Zattere
- The wedding in the garden
- Lunch in winter
- The property of Colette Nervi
- Running away
- Cocktails at Doney's
- Her mother's daughter
- Bodily secrets
- Two more gallants
- The smoke trees of San Pietro
- Virgins
- Music
- Events at Drimaghleen
- Family sins
- A trinity
- The third party
- Honeymoon in Tramore
- The printmaker
- In love with Ariadne
- A husband's return
- Coffee with Oliver
- August Saturday
- Children of the headmaster
- Kathleen's field.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Trevor, William, 1928- Short stories. Selections. Collected stories.
- ISBN:
- 0140232451
- 9780140232455
- 0670841293
- 9780670841295
- OCLC:
- 28797765
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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