With a career that spanned more than half a century, William Trevor is regarded as one of the best writers of short stories in the English language. Now, in Last Stories, the master storyteller delivers ten exquisitely rendered tales—nine of which have never been published in book form—that illuminate the human condition and will surely linger in the listener's mind.
Subtle yet powerful, Trevor's stories give us insights into the lives of ordinary people. We encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed dead is alive and well; and a piano-teacher who accepts her student's serial thefts in exchange for his beautiful music.
This final and special collection is a gift to lovers of literature and Trevor's many admirers, and affirms his place as one of the world's greatest storytellers.
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"Throughout these final stories from the masterly Trevor, limpid and clearly defined as dewdrops on a branch, we see characters dealing with the past and moving forward-or not. . . . Highly recommended."
— Library Journal Starred Review
“Extraordinary…Mr. Trevor’s sheer intensity of entry into the lives of his people…proceeds to uncover new layers of yearning and pain, new angles of vision and credible thought.”
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William Trevor is the author of nearly
thirty books, including Felicia’s Journey,
which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was made into a major motion
picture. In 1996 he was the recipient of the Lannan Award for Fiction, and 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 appear regularly in the New Yorker. In
1997 he was named Honorary Commander of the British Empire. He lives in Devon,
England.
Simon Vance (a.k.a. Robert Whitfield) is an award-winning actor and narrator. He has earned more than fifty Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration thirteen times. He was named Booklist’s very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and has been named an AudioFile Golden Voice as well as an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London. He is also an actor who has appeared on both stage and television.