"One of the very best writers of our era. Get in touch. Understand a little more, condemn a little less, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 September 2009. Try again. --Robert Mighall Does this book contain quality or formatting issues? Ruin: A haunting thriller full of creeping tension and darkness. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for The Hill Bachelors at Amazon.com. "Low Sunday, 1950," recalls Yeats' "terrible beauty" in its imagery of a landscape haunted by history; while "The Virgin's Gift" combines descriptive simplicity with religious allegory in a moving tale of a man's return to his parents after 40 years of self-imposed exile. These economical stories are often as much about what isn't said as about what happens or is spoken between the protagonists. The University's roots go back to 1848. . Try again. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. . Enter your username and a recovery link will be emailed to the email address on file at your library. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 January 2013. Trevor's collection manages to capture, with melancoly and understatement, often inconsequential detail of peoples' lives and evoke the time, the place and human tragedy for those at the margins or outside society. Unable to add item to List. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 June 2018, Another great collection. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. William Trevor’s Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking. A master of loneliness and the acceptance of what life has determined, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 September 2014. Many of the stories are set in Ireland, and these have a richness of imagery and lyrical intensity that at times brings them close to prose poems. Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? She has a bachelor’s degree in Management. . News. The unrequited love of "A Friend in the Trade", the rejection of heroism in "The Mourning" or the renunciation of personal fulfilment, for familial or even national interests in "The Hill Bachelors" combine to establish pathos as the key tone of the collection. It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness. The prose is sparing and effective in its flowing poetic style. These twelve beautifully rendered tales reveal Trevor's unrivalled compassion for the human condition. His books in Penguin are: After Rain; A Bit on the Side; Bodily Secrets; Cheating at Canasta; The Children of Dynmouth; The Collected Stories (Volumes One and Two); Death in Summer; Felicia's Journey; Fools of Fortune; The Hill Bachelors; Love and Summer; The Mark-2 Wife; Selected Stories; The Story of Lucy Gault and Two Lives. . It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness. I treasure every book by William Trevor as he is immensely talented with his spare and simple style which is hauntingly beautiful. Buy this product and stream 90 days of Amazon Music Unlimited for free. Save for Later. The Hill Bachelors by Trevor, William at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 0141002174 - ISBN 13: 9780141002170 - Penguin - 2001 - Softcover . These days the bachelors of the hills found it difficult to attract a wife to the modest farms they inherited. With understatement and precision he writes about the lonely and the sad, about those that barely have control over their lives and those who have something to hide. In "Three People" a father waits for the proposal for his daughter that will never come; in "Against the Odds", a con-woman has business that takes her all across the Six Counties; and in the poignant title-story, a youngest son returns home for his father's funeral and stays to run the farm. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 November 2014. More of the team. --This text refers to an alternate. These economical stories are often as much about what isn't said as about what happens or is spoken between the protagonists. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. This private physiotherapy practice offers easy access to patients from Notting Hill and South Kensington in London. Some of these items are dispatched sooner than the others. 'His tight, perfected short stories - each an astonishing performance in which melodramatic situations are turned, by acute psychological insight, into classic drama - make him the greatest living writer in English' Weekly StandardReaders of The Story of Lucy Gault and Love and Summer will adore The Hill Bachelors. The prose is sparing and effective in its flowing poetic style. A little gem. 'His tight, perfected short stories - each an astonishing performance in which melodramatic situations are turned, by acute psychological insight, into classic drama - make him the greatest living writer in English' Weekly StandardReaders of The Story of Lucy Gault and Love and Summer will adore The Hill Bachelors. (The Robinswood Story Book 2). Even after reading scores of, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 January 2017. Google Earth is the most photorealistic, digital version of our planet. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. This collection of twelve short stories, set in Ireland, France and England, by one the the most consistent writers of this genre [certainly the best living male short storywriter], William Trevor, b. Ellern Mede Moorgate School. . It will also be cherished by readers of Colm Toibin and William Boyd. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 January 2013. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. I treasure every book by William Trevor as he is immensely talented with his spare and simple style which is hauntingly beautiful. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature. His books in Penguin are: After Rain; A Bit on the Side; Bodily Secrets; Cheating at Canasta; The Children of Dynmouth; The Collected Stories (Volumes One and Two); Death in Summer; Felicia's Journey; Fools of Fortune; The Hill Bachelors; Love and Summer; The Mark-2 Wife; Selected Stories; The Story of Lucy Gault and Two Lives. ... with his spare and simple style which is hauntingly beautiful. 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