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Description for Love and Summer
hardcover. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy
It's summer and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn't go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger appears on his bicycle and begins photographing the mourners at Mrs Connulty's funeral. Florian Kilderry couldn't know that the Connultys were said to own half the town; and, in any case, he had come to Rathmoye only to see the scorched remains of the cinema. But Mrs Connulty's daughter, liberated at last by the death of her imperious mother, resolves to keep an eye on Florian Kilderry, and it's she who comes to witness the events that follow. A few miles out ... Read more
It's summer and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn't go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger appears on his bicycle and begins photographing the mourners at Mrs Connulty's funeral. Florian Kilderry couldn't know that the Connultys were said to own half the town; and, in any case, he had come to Rathmoye only to see the scorched remains of the cinema. But Mrs Connulty's daughter, liberated at last by the death of her imperious mother, resolves to keep an eye on Florian Kilderry, and it's she who comes to witness the events that follow. A few miles out ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780670918249
SKU
KMK0023444
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About William Trevor
William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He has written many novels, and has won many prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. He is a celebrated short-story writer whose two most recent collections are The Hill Bachelors (2000), which won the Macmillan Silver Pen ... Read more
Reviews for Love and Summer
I was totally entranced ... a rare book
Ruth Scurr, The Times
A fabulously benign book ... a work of sympathetic magic
Sebastian Barry, Guardian
I can't think of anything I've read recently that has chronicled more accurately the thumping chaos of human hearts or felt more questioning and youthful and alive
Julie Myerson, Financial ... Read more
Ruth Scurr, The Times
A fabulously benign book ... a work of sympathetic magic
Sebastian Barry, Guardian
I can't think of anything I've read recently that has chronicled more accurately the thumping chaos of human hearts or felt more questioning and youthful and alive
Julie Myerson, Financial ... Read more