After Rain: Stories

There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world.--Wall Street Journal

Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor.

In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumbs the depths of the human heart. Here we encounter a blind piano tuner whose wonderful memories of his first wife are cruelly distorted by his second; a woman in a difficult marriage who must choose between her indignant husband and her closest friend; two children, survivors of divorce, who mimic their parents' melodramas; and a heartbroken woman traveling alone in Italy who experiences an epiphany while studying a forgotten artist's Annunciation. Trevor is, in his own words, a storyteller. My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so.

Conscious or not, he touches us in ways that few writers even dare to try. Trevor wrote eighteen novels and novellas, and hundreds of short stories, for which he has won a number of prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature.

Author: William Trevor
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 10/01/1997
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.76h x 5.07w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780140258349
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/16/1997 pg. 76
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1997 pg. 96
Publishers Weekly 08/25/1997

About the Author
William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, and spent his childhood in provincial Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of twenty-nine books, including Felicia's Journey, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was made into a motion picture, and The Story of Lucy Gault, which was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread Fiction Prize. In 1996 he was the recipient of the Lannan Award for Fiction. 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 appeared regularly in The New Yorker. In 1997, he was named Honorary Commander of the British Empire.


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