Description
In these ten finely wrought stories, William Trevor turns to lives that seem to have settled into quiet routines—only for memory, chance encounters, and long-buried feelings to disturb the surface. Across characters shaped by Ireland’s social textures, love arrives in complicated forms: as devotion shadowed by abandonment, desire entangled with deception, and the lingering ache of what might have been. With his signature clarity and compassion, Trevor traces how people reinterpret their pasts when they meet again, when they learn the truth about family, or when a single revelation forces them to reconsider who they have been. Themes of loneliness, moral ambiguity, and the fragile ways we survive disappointment pulse beneath each story’s calm exterior, making this collection both haunting and quietly luminous.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Books
Published Jan 1, 2019
ISBN: 9780525558125
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Details
First Published
2017
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Last Stories by William Trevor.