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A Bit on the Side
William Trevor
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Description for A Bit on the Side
Hardcover. 8vo .Good copy. First edition in dustwrapper
'Then, for the forty minutes that were theirs, they spoke of love: as it had been for them, as it still was, of its confinement, necessarily so, its intensity too, its pain, the mockery it had so often felt like, how they had never wasted it by sitting in silence in the dark of a cinema or sleeping through the handful of nights they'd spent together in her flat. They had not wasted it in lovers' quarrels, or lovers' argument. They did not waste it now, in what they said....' Tender, touching, beautifully honest, William Trevor's first collection of stories since the highly acclaimed and award winning The Hill Bachelors (2000), A Bit On The Side explores questions of love and adultery, secret passions, office romances, and the broken and unbroken rules of love.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Viking
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780670915071
SKU
KEX0307821
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About William Trevor
William Trevor won the Macmillan Silver Pen Award and the Irish Times Literature Prize for his last collection of short stories. His most recent novel, The Story of Lucy Gault, was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread Fiction Award in 2002. William Trevor was knighted for his services to literature in 2002.
Reviews for A Bit on the Side
Reading the Irish writer William Trevor is like drinking cool water when you are tired. You may think you want something stronger or fizzier than his understated prose and his calm understanding of the human condition; but before long you realise that he is providing the kind of refreshment you really need.... His [10]th volume of short stories shows him at his best.... He holds the attention without any melodrama or cheap tricks.
The Sunday Telegraph, April 18, 2004 Beautiful, spartan prose...His characters are concisely drawn. [They] understand the consolations of sympathy. [This] is a suggestion that lends a human quality to his writing.
Saturday Telegraph, April 24, 2004 Perfectly crafted stories... In his tenth book of stories William Trevor displays a matter-of-fact mastery. His tone and material are distinctive without any striving-it's rare for him to raise his voice.... Trevor keeps his point of view fluid, so that the reader's impressions of a central character can be enriched by other people's.... Trevor has laid claim to a large stretch of human terrain. He must go on exploring it, even at the risk of turning it into a private and increasingly imaginary country. Call it Trevorland.
The Observer, April 25, 2004 Praise for William Trevor: The greatest living writer in English is an Anglo-Irishman named William Trevor. . . . It might seem presumptuous to speak about Trevor in Shakespearean terms, but he is among the few contemporary writers who warrant the comparison.
The Globe and Mail One of the pre-eminent writers of his generation. He is arguably the finest story writer from the era that may have seen the form reach itsapex.
Toronto Star Often spoken of in the same breath as Joyce and Chekhov, Trevor shares both writers' subtlety, and, like them, is able to create distinct and mysterious worlds.
National Post One of the greatest writers alive.
The Chronicle-Herald (Halifax) From the Hardcover edition.
The Sunday Telegraph, April 18, 2004 Beautiful, spartan prose...His characters are concisely drawn. [They] understand the consolations of sympathy. [This] is a suggestion that lends a human quality to his writing.
Saturday Telegraph, April 24, 2004 Perfectly crafted stories... In his tenth book of stories William Trevor displays a matter-of-fact mastery. His tone and material are distinctive without any striving-it's rare for him to raise his voice.... Trevor keeps his point of view fluid, so that the reader's impressions of a central character can be enriched by other people's.... Trevor has laid claim to a large stretch of human terrain. He must go on exploring it, even at the risk of turning it into a private and increasingly imaginary country. Call it Trevorland.
The Observer, April 25, 2004 Praise for William Trevor: The greatest living writer in English is an Anglo-Irishman named William Trevor. . . . It might seem presumptuous to speak about Trevor in Shakespearean terms, but he is among the few contemporary writers who warrant the comparison.
The Globe and Mail One of the pre-eminent writers of his generation. He is arguably the finest story writer from the era that may have seen the form reach itsapex.
Toronto Star Often spoken of in the same breath as Joyce and Chekhov, Trevor shares both writers' subtlety, and, like them, is able to create distinct and mysterious worlds.
National Post One of the greatest writers alive.
The Chronicle-Herald (Halifax) From the Hardcover edition.