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	Read Ireland - Featured Authors
		Trevor acknowledges the influence of James Joyce on his short story writing, and 'the odour of ashpits and old weeds and offal' can be detected in his work, but the overall impression is not a gloominess, since, particularly in the early work, the author's wry humor offers the reader a tragicomic version of the world.
		Trevor maintains that, unlike the characters in his stories, those in his novels 'cause everything to happen.' His early books are peopled by eccentrics who speak in a pedantically formal manner and engage in hilariously comic activities, which are recounted by a detached narrative voice.
		William Trevor's most recent novel, Death in Summer (1998), is a riveting and wonderfully sympathetic portrait of the distress and damage that lie at the heart of some lives - both those that are obviously afflicted and those that appear to be blessed.
	www.readireland.ie /aotm/Trevor.html (1016 words)

	William Trevor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Trevor, KBE (born May 24, 1928) is a short story writer, novelist and playwright of Irish origin, now living in Devon in England.
		Born William Trevor Cox in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland to a middle-class Protestant family, he moved several times to other provincial towns due to his father's work as a bank official.
		Trevor is a member of the Irish Academy of Letters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Trevor (465 words)

	WilliamWil
		William Trevor Cox was born in Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, in 1928.
		Trevor has been acknowledged as the master of understatement, through which he cleverly disguises the ironies, eccentricities and the ulterior motives of his characters in a subtle yet highly effective fashion.
		Although Trevor's span of characters is wide and varied, those central to his works have been women, children, the old, the middle-class, the lonely, the alienated, those belonging to failed marriages and those who experience unrequited love.
	www.munsterlit.ie /Conwriters/william_trevor.htm (1158 words)

	The Modern Library \| Authors
		For his admirers, Trevor at 72 is among the finest writers in the world and as a master of the short story, standing equal to V.S. Pritchett and John Cheever.
		Trevor maintains he is not a political writer, his use of class is cultural and ultimately more about the absence of justice.
		Trevor is a shrewd reader, he is insightful but not intimidating and smiles when unlike most short writers he does not claim a particular devotion to Chekhov.
	www.randomhouse.com /modernlibrary/wtrevor.html (2500 words)

	William Trevor
		Novelist and short-story writer William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, in the Republic of Ireland on 24 May 1928.
		William Trevor was awarded an honorary CBE in 1977 for his services to literature, and was made a Companion of Literature in 1994.
		William Trevor is one of the most prolific writers to have emerged from modern Ireland.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth122 (1748 words)

	Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
		Trevor's novels are usually set in England or Ireland, and he has often written of the troubles afflicting his native country.
		Trevor is also a master of the spare and ironic short story.
		Trevor has also written a study of literary Ireland (1984) and a memoir, Excursions in the Real World (1993).
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:TrevorWm (227 words)

	William Trevor
		Trevor's father, James Cox, worked as a bank manager, which meant that the family was forced to move frequently.
		Trevor attended 13 different schools throughout the area, including St. Columba's College, County Dublin, where he was taught by sculptor Oisin Kelly.
		Trevor once said, "I am not much interested in myself either as a person or as a writer.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-052404-trevor.html (666 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: William Trevor
		William Trevor was born in County Cork in 1928 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
		William Trevor’s stunning new collection of stories displays this renowned craftsman at the peak of his powers.
		With understatement and startling precision William Trevor writes about longing and sadness, the loving and the lonely, those who barely have control over their lives and those who have...
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=31415 (456 words)

	Amazon.com: Felicia's Journey : (movie tie-in edition): Books: William Trevor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Trevor, long admired for his trenchant stories and novels, his subtle humor and broad compassion, retains all those virtues in his deeply absorbing new novel and adds a degree of narrative tension he has not shown before.
		Trevor's brilliant narrative skills are showcased as he weaves the story with flashbacks, revelations of his characters' thoughts, and displays of their dreams.
		Trevor underscores the terror of homelessness with subtle portraits of the people she meets, their offhand kindness a contrast to the circus of grubbiness, insanity and drug addiction.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140290214?v=glance (2764 words)

	The Greatest Literature of All Time - William Trevor
		A common theme for Trevor is his characters' acceptance or rejection of the abandonment of their hopes.
		He was born William Trevor Cox in County Cork, Ireland and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, although most of his adult life has been lived in Devon, England.
		Over the next three decades Trevor was prolific and we can scarcely list his award-wining novels, as well as his story collections that have led some critics to dub him the greatest living short story writer in the world.
	www.editoreric.com /greatlit/authors/Trevor.html (645 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada \| A Bit on the Side by William Trevor
		William Trevor’s graceful prose is a wonder in itself, and as convincing when inhabiting the mind of a school lunchmaid, an adulterous Irish country librarian or a murderer on the London streets.
		And as is always the case with William Trevor, venom and tragedy are never far from the still surface of the stories.
		Trevor keeps his point of view fluid, so that the reader’s impressions of a central character can be enriched by other people’s….
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780676976700 (474 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor - Hardcover - 1 AMER ED
		Trevor brilliantly conveys the disquiet and confusion that colour the story of Lucy Gault as it's told while it happens, in towns and countryside, and told again when passing has made it different.
		Trevor (Death in Summer) is one of the finest prose stylists writing today; his delicately shaded novels and stories often have a Chekhovian sense of loss and longing.
		William Trevor has been called "the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language." Words of praise pale beside his wonderfully lyric prose, as he reveals longings shared by all of us and paints luminous word pictures of Ireland.
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	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Reviews \| The Story of Lucy Gault: Press views
		Trevor's writing is so simple and poised, however, his sense of pace so exact, his understanding of essential human emotion so sure, that he draws from it something with the force and certainty of myth.
		Trevor has written a novel as lovely as his extraordinary novella, Reading Turgenev, which seemed to give expression to the air between the words.
		The genius of William Trevor is that his narrative transfigures pain, disappointment, tedium and even madness into beauty and consolation.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/reviews/2334105.stm (461 words)

	Metroactive Books \| William Trevor
		WILLIAM TREVOR, the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language, has managed over the last 30-odd years to tread down every avenue concerned with modern literature without ever once seeming faddish.
		Politics: In "Attracta," perhaps his best-known story, a schoolteacher in Belfast finds his life irrevocably changed by a story in a newspaper about a woman whose army officer husband is murdered, his head returned to her in a plastic bag inside a biscuit tin.
		Trevor the writer never raises his voice; there are no speeches, no pronouncements, no easy lessons or morals to be learned.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/11.14.96/books1-9646.html (782 words)

	'A Bit on the Side: Stories' by William Trevor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		William Trevor, one of the most prolific of these, has published 19 novels, but he thinks of himself primarily as a short-story writer.
		One of the most repeated words in these stories is "difference." Trevor is a Protestant raised in a predominantly Catholic country and an Irishman living in Britain.
		Before he wrote fiction, William Trevor was an art teacher and sculptor, and his fiction affirms the power of art and music to give order and beauty to an otherwise mundane life.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04277/388855.stm (630 words)

	William Trevor: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		William Trevor (born 24 May 1928) CBE[For more info, click on this link], EHandler: no quick summary.
		Born William Trevor Cox in Mitchelstown Mitchelstown quick summary:
		Dublin (baile átha cliath in irish) is the capital and largest city of the republic of ireland, located near the midpoint of irelands east coast (), at...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_trevor.htm (646 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| Two Lives \| William Trevor
		William Trevor Cox was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland in 1928.
		Trevor's art was exhibited in Dublin and in several places in England, to which he emigrated in 1953.
		Trevor is a member of the Irish Academy of Letters and resides in Devon, England, with his wife, Jane Ryan Cox.
	www.idiotsguides.com /static/rguides/us/twolives.html (1666 words)

	The Story of Lucy Gault - Reviewed by Kevin McGowin - Eclectica Magazine v7n3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lost while visiting her favorite local places for what she believes to be the last time, among the crags and cliffs by the sea, an item of clothing caught in a branch seems proof to the horrified family and friends that she is gone, drowned.
		William Trevor's riveting and suspenseful novel is the work of an experienced and masterful storyteller.
		Trevor writes not a word too few or a word too many, and his plotting and narrative timing are damn near close to perfect.
	www.eclectica.org /v7n3/mcgowin_trevor.html (326 words)

	'The Hill Bachelors' by William Trevor
		Trevor dangles that question mark with chilling effect as the trio deftly sidestep the mystery that brought them together.
		In “Le Visiteur,” Trevor once again makes the reader privy to the secret guarded by the characters who carry on a long-term relationship that would shatter if the simple truth were told.
		Trevor has a bit of fun in “Death of a Professor.” A prankster manages to trick several newspapers into printing the obituary of Professor Ormston.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20001119review629.asp (624 words)

	Studies in Short Fiction: William Trevor: the Writer and His Work. - book review on LookSmart Junior High
		MacKenna is not the first critic to show through formal analysis that Trevor's perspective is that of an outsider, but she also suggests, by way of a historical sketch of his family, that this perspective emanates from the circumstances of his ancestry and family life.
		The Cox family (Trevor was born William Trevor Cox) came from County Roscommon in western Ireland, where people with that name were often Gaelic Catholic in origin, not Anglo-Irish Protestant.
		Trevor's father was raised in the South and his mother, also Protestant, in the North (her ancestors had come from Scotland).
	www.gradewinner.com /p/articles/mi_m2455/is_4_36/ai_90990570 (489 words)

	William Trevor Biography / Biography of William Trevor Biography
		William Trevor (born 1928), whose life and fictional settings were divided between his native Ireland and his adopted England, was a successful novelist, television dramatist, playwright, and, above all, master of the short story.
		William Trevor Cox was born an Irish Protestant on May 24, 1928, in County Cork, the son of a bank manager.
		Until the age of 22 Trevor had never been out of Ireland, but two years later (1952) the depressed national economy impelled him to leave permanently and to take up residence in England.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-william-trevor (248 words)

	A Booker Potentate: William Trevor
		William Trevor already has a plethora of literary awards to his name, and he has recently been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize.
		William Trevor's skill as a novelist is put to the test, as the reader must suspend his/or her belief that communication between the daughter and parents is not possible.
		Perhaps both authors share the same muse, for Trevor's previous novel Death in Summer is similar to McEwans A Child in Time in dealing with a missing, or kidnapped child.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/15776/95447 (507 words)

	Eric Sedlack - 02 - The Troublesome Son
		Trevor knew it was no use trying to keep Brian out with his inferior shields, so he would have to play tricky.
		William promptly turned red as a beet and the last thing Trevor saw for some time was a seventeen-year-old fist rapidly approaching his face...
		Trevor was shaken by the violence of the outburst.
	www.airsid.net /B/5/F06.htm (1582 words)

	Strand Bookstore: Bit On The Side; by William Trevor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		At the heart of the collection is Trevor's characteristic tenderness &unflinching eye for both the humanizing & demeaning aspects of modern urban and rural life.
		This particular volume of William Trevor's stories--his 11th collection--centers on midlife regret.
		Trevor describes interior states as concretely as he conjures his sparse domestic interiors....The governing artistic virtue, at all times, is truthfulness.
	www.strandbooks.com /profile?isbn=067003343X (485 words)

	Amazon.com: Two Lives: Books: William Trevor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Each of Trevor's two heroines is trapped in her life, one in Ireland and the other in Italy, and each has some experience of the transformative power of literature, a subject the author knows at first hand.
		Trevor juxtaposes an exquisite pair of mirroring narratives: an unhappily married woman's half-imaginary romance, and a romance author's experience of terrorism.
		Trevor's memorable characters seem as though they live by the rules of an earlier era, but they are also gifted with a hard, native common sense.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140153721?v=glance (1483 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Book Reviews
		Trevor writes exquisitely of the disaffected, of the lonely people you notice only to pity and intend to invite over to dinner but never do.
		It's the soul-breaking Trevor captures so well: the moment when a wedding rehearsal game drives a spiritual wedge between a bridal couple, when a quirky middle-aged man is quietly rejected by the married woman he loves, the way he never admits his love to begin with.
		Inarticulateness and a lack of questioning run through Trevor's characters; they waste little thought on how they arrived where they are, don't think to cry out against it.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2000-12-15/books_vsbr8.html (460 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| The Story of Lucy Gault \| William Trevor
		U.S. William Trevor has long been regarded as one of Ireland's most evocative writers, a prose stylist of the highest order with a Chekhovian awareness of the emotional undercurrents of his characters' lives.
		And in The Story of Lucy Gault, Trevor lives up to, perhaps even surpasses, that reputation in a novel that explores the tragic consequences for one family of Ireland's deep-seated political strife.
		William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, in 1928, and spent his childhood in provincial Ireland.
	www.idiotsguides.com /static/rguides/us/story_lucy_gault.html (980 words)

	Trevor, William on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Felicia's Journey: William Trevor's latest book is a thriller.
		The tragedy of Imelda's terminal silence in William Trevor's Fools of Fortune.
		The side story: William Trevor and the compulsion to tell other people's tales for them.(Books and Arts)(A Bit on the Side: Stories)(Book Review)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/TrevorW1m.asp (434 words)

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