{"title":"William Trevor","description":"William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, and spent his childhood in provincial Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of twenty-nine books, including Felicia's Journey, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was made into a motion picture, and The Story of Lucy Gault,  which was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread Fiction Prize. In 1996 he was the recipient of the Lannan Award for Fiction. In 2001, he won the Irish Times Literature Prize for fiction. Two of his books were chosen by The New York Times as best books of the year, and his short stories appeared regularly in the New Yorker. In 1997, he was named Honorary Commander of the British Empire.","products":[{"product_id":"felicias-journey-paperback","title":"Felicia's Journey - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Perfectly executed and chilling... a sad and oddly moving tale of lost opportunities and misplaced hopes.\"\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003e--The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Trevor was our twentieth century Chekov.\"\u003ci\u003e--Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFelicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She steals away from a small Irish town and drifts through the industrial English Midlands, searching for the boyfriend who left her. Instead she meets up with the fat, fiftyish, unfailingly reasonable Mr. Hilditch, who is looking for a new friend to join the five other girls in his Memory Lane. But the strange, sad, terrifying tricks of chance unravel both his and Felicia's delusions in a story that will magnetize fans of Alfred Hitchcock and Ruth Rendell even as it resonates with William Trevor's own \"impeccable strength and piercing profundity\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103180722399,"sku":"9780140253603","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/TM92S7AgKS9780140253603.webp?v=1781090441"},{"product_id":"love-and-summer-paperback","title":"Love and Summer - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Unbearably moving\" - \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpectator\u003c\/b\u003e (London) \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A subtle, surprising, sometimes agonizing tale of young love and passion.\" - \u003cb\u003eJulie Myerson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The latest item from William Trevor's venerable suitcase, is a thrilling work of art.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In spare, exquisite prose, master storyteller William Trevor presents a haunting love story about the choices of the heart, and the passions and frustrations of three lives during one long summer. Ellie is a shy orphan girl from the hill country, married to a man whose life has been blighted by an unspeakable tragedy. She lives a quiet life in the Irish village of Rathmoye, until she meets Florian Kilderry, a young photographer preparing to leave Ireland and his past forever. The chance intersection of these two lost souls sets in motion a poignant love affair that requires Ellie to make an impossible choice.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104455397599,"sku":"9780143117889","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/JTR1uXy4SA9780143117889.webp?v=1781108349"},{"product_id":"fools-of-fortune-paperback","title":"Fools of Fortune - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003ePenguin Classics is proud to welcome William Trevor--\"Ireland's answer to Chekhov\" (\u003cb\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/b\u003e) and \"one of the best writers of our era\" (\u003cb\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e)--to our distinguished list of literary masters. In this award-winning novel, an informer's body is found on the estate of a wealthy Irish family shortly after the First World War, and an appalling cycle of revenge is set in motion. Led by a zealous sergeant, the Black and Tans set fire to the family home, and only young Willie and his mother escape alive. Fatherless, Willie grows into manhood while his alcoholic mother's bitter resentment festers. And though he finds love, Willie is unable to leave the terrible injuries of the past behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst time in Penguin Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104789008607,"sku":"9780143039624","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/t0DRiAk6vK9780143039624.webp?v=1781111323"},{"product_id":"ireland-paperback-1","title":"Ireland - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Trevor's \u003ci\u003eLast Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is forthcoming from Viking.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWilliam Trevor has long been hailed as one of the greatest living writers of short fiction. These nineteen stories--selected by Trevor himself from \u003cb\u003eThe Collected Stories\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eAfter Rain\u003c\/b\u003e--capture the nuances of rural and middle-class life in the Ireland he knows so well. Here are its people, their lives driven by love, faith, and duty, surviving in a culture that blends tradition with transformation. In spare and eloquent prose Trevor's stories engage and provoke us as only the best fiction can.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104879153375,"sku":"9780140277593","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/juQeP8lJpN9780140277593.webp?v=1781111509"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/william-trevor.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}