William Trevor

William Trevor is an undisputed master of the short story but, perhaps, less known for his novels. Felicias Journey, which follows the journey of a young, innocent girl from rural Ireland to Birmingham, is bursting with understated mood and atmosphere. Perfectly crafted and wonderfully cinematic (you may have seen director Atom Egoyans recent screen adaptation starring Bob Hoskins) it screams with a sinister undercurrent of menace; there are few writers who say so much so quietly. 'You're beautiful', Johnny told her and so, full of hope seventeen-year-old Felicia crosses the Irish Sea to England to find her lover and tell him she is pregnant. Searching desperately for Johnny, she is, instead, found by Mr Hilditch, pudgy canteen catering manager, collector and befriender of homeless young girls.

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Felicia busca a Johnny desesperadamente; es decir, lo espera encadenada en cuerpo y alma. Se conocieron en Irlanda, en una boda en la que ambos fueron invitados y se amaron o creyeron amarse. Él se va a Inglaterra donde ha encontrado trabajo sin dejar su nueva direccion y ella decide cruzar el mar para reencontrarlo. En su vagabundeo, sin medios, enferma de amor, Felicia se enfrenta a la gran ciudad, en su dia industrialmente floreciente, hoy negra, devastada por la crisis, el paro, el racismo, la violencia. Johnny no aparece, en cambio Felicia conoce a personajes pintorescos. Entre ellos Hilditch, inquietante compañero de infortunios, que no puede impedir la bajada a los infiernos de Felicia buscando su fantasmagorico amor, el instante de felicidad que ya se fue, en medio de un mundo que carece de solidaridad. El viaje de Felicia obtuvo en 1994 los premios Whitbread y Sunday Express. El director Atom Egoyan ha hecho una version cinematografica de la misma.

'No matter what,' Julia had said, aware then of what was coming, 'let's always play cards.' And they did; for even with her memory gone, a little more of it each day — her children taken, her house, her flowerbeds, belongings, clothes — their games in the communal drawing room were a reality her affliction allowed. A husband sits in Harry's Bar in Venice, thinking of his wife — lost to him now — whose plea has brought him back to one of their favourite haunts. On another table, a young couple quarrel. 'Cheating at Canasta' is the title story of William Trevor's new collection, his first since the highly acclaimed A Bit on the Side (2004), and its themes of missed opportunities, the inevitability of change and the powerful but fragmentary quality of our memories are entirely characteristic of his unparalleled oeuvre.

Wealthy widow Norah ONeill wonders if she will ever marry again. When her son decides to close the familys failing toy factory, the manager, a decent man who dances the quickstep beautifully, becomes unemployed. Suddenly, Norah sees her chance for happiness, in a new venture of her own.

An Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man, but finds release through secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian novels.

Youre beautiful, Johnny told her. So, full of hope, seventeen-year-old Felicia crosses the Irish Sea to England to find her lover and tell him she is pregnant. Desperately searching for Johnny in the bleak post-industrial Midlands, she is instead found by Mr Hilditch, a strange and lonely man, a collector and befriender of homeless young girls.

It is summer and a stranger has come to quiet Rathmoye. He is noticed by Ellie, the young convent girl, who is married to Dillahan, a farmer still mourning his first wife. Over the long and warm days, Ellie and the stranger form an illicit attachment. And those in the town can only watch, holding their tongues, as passion, love and fate take their inevitable course.

William Trevor's The Children of Dynmouth was first published in 1976. In it we follow awkward, lonely, curious teenager Timothy Gedge as he wanders around the bland south-coast seaside town of Dynmouth. Timothy takes a prurient interest in the lives of the adults there, who only realize the sinister purpose to which he seeks to put his knowledge too late. This brilliant novel is eerily prescient as it shows a young person's obsession with fame and his capacity for evil.

The story of a frustrated romance between a young, married ex-convent girl and a visiting stranger in a small Irish town over one long summer.

William Trevor (1928), autor de novelas tan memorables como El estallido científico, Marionetas o Noches en el Alexandra es una de las figuras señeras de la literatura irlandesa contemporánea. En Leyendo a Turgueniev nos relata la historia de la joven Mary Louise Dallon, una muchacha ingenua y atractiva que esta deseando escapar de la granja en la que vive con su familia; pero el matrimonio no resulta ser una solucion adecuada, y menos cuando el marido prefiere la bebida al sexo. Una breve relacion sentimental es todo lo que ella se atreve ya a esperar, pero sabe que, para sobrevivir, el amor verdadero es tambien una cuestion muy seria.

Features the awkward, lonely, curious teenager Timothy Gedge as he wanders around the bland seaside town of Dynmouth. Timothy takes a prurient interest in the lives of the adults there, who only realise the sinister purpose to which he seeks to put his knowledge too late.