Love and Summer View By William Trevor
| Title | : | Love and Summer |
| Author | : | William Trevor |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Page | : | 224 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0670021237 |
The inimitable William Trevor returns with a story of suspicion, guilt, forbidden love and the possibility of starting over It s summer, and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye So it doesn t go unnoticed when a dark haired stranger begins photographing the mourners at Mrs Connulty s funeral Florian Kilderry couldn t know that the Connultys were said to own half the t The inimitable William Trevor returns with a story of suspicion, guilt, forbidden love and the possibility of starting over It s summer, and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye So it doesn t go unnoticed when a dark haired stranger begins photographing the mourners at Mrs Connulty s funeral Florian Kilderry couldn t know that the Connultys were said to own half the town But Miss Connulty resolves to keep an eye on Florian and she becomes a witness to the ensuing events In a characteristically masterful way, Trevor evokes the passions and frustrations in an Irish town during one long summer
about Author
William Trevor, KBE grew up in various provincial towns and attended a number of schools, graduating from Trinity College, in Dublin, with a degree in history He first exercised his artistry as a sculptor, working as a teacher in Northern Ireland and then emigrated to England in search of work when the school went bankrupt He could have returned to Ireland once he became a successful writer, he William Trevor, KBE grew up in various provincial towns and attended a number of schools, graduating from Trinity College, in Dublin, with a degree in history He first exercised his artistry as a sculptor, working as a teacher in Northern Ireland and then emigrated to England in search of work when the school went bankrupt He could have returned to Ireland once he became a successful writer, he said, but by then I had become a wanderer, and one way and another, I just stayed in England I hated leaving Ireland I was very bitter at the time But, had it not happened, I think I might never have written at all In 1958 Trevor published his first novel, A Standard of Behaviour, to little critical success Two years later, he abandoned sculpting completely, feeling his work had become too abstract, and found a job writing copy for a London advertising agency This was absurd, he said They would give me four lines or so to write and four or five days to write it in It was so boring But they had given me this typewriter to work on, so I just started writing stories I sometimes think all the people who were missing in my sculpture gushed out into the stories He published several short stories, then his second and third novels, which both won the Hawthornden Prize established in 1919 by Alice Warrender and named after William Drummond of Hawthornden, the Hawthornden Prize is one of the UK s oldest literary awards A number of other prizes followed, and Trevor began working full time as a writer in 1965.Since then, Trevor has published nearly 40 novels, short story collections, plays, and collections of nonfiction He has won three Whitbread Awards, a PEN Macmillan Silver Pen Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize In 1977 Trevor was appointed an honorary he holds Irish, not British, citizenship Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire CBE for his services to literature and in 2002 he was elevated to honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire KBE Since he began writing, William Trevor regularly spends half the year in Italy or Switzerland, often visiting Ireland in the other half His home is in Devon, in South West England, on an old mill surrounded by 40 acres of land 
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The inimitable William Trevor returns with a story of suspicion, guilt, forbidden love and the possibility of starting over It s summer, and nothing m
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