After Rain: Stories
by William Trevor
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Author: William TrevorEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-10-01
ISBN: 0140258345
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: A Master Storyteller
Summary: 4 Stars
With a few deft strokes, William Trevor establishes a mood, a sense of place, an atmosphere of expectation and apprehension. You read a paragraph or two and you are there - on an Irish farm, in an Italian Pensione, in a seedy suburb. Behind the facade of provincial respectability you glimpse the private fears and secret passions of ordinary people - their casual cruelty and guilt, their destructive jealousies and misdirected ardor, their timid hopes and aspirations.
There is nothing idyllic about these stories. They tend to sneak up on you the way some Henry James stories do, unkenneling the nameless dread that lurks in people's hearts. Do not read them at bedtime; they make for unquiet sleep. There is usually some kind of recognition and reversal, but rarely a sense of resolution or redemption. The best you can hope for is clarity.
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