In full black paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. In making melancholia a powerful narrative device. A UK edition of Irish-born author William Trevors collection of 12 short stories. The book as a whole recalls Joyce's Dubliners From a chance encounter between two childhood friends to the memories of a newly widowed man to a family grappling with the sale of their ancestral land, Trevor.

And when Mollie of “At Olivehill” is at last goaded by her sons into selling her deceased husband's woodlands, the earthmovers appear with the alacrity of enemy tanks, altering her internal landscape as well. Suitable for those who enjoyed The Story of Lucy Gault and Love and Summer, this title deals with themes.

The widower Mallory of the title story finds that mortality does not quite do away with the need for role playing and reverse strategies in marriage. Description for Cheating At Canasta Paperback. Father Meade, complicit (or perhaps not) in Prunty's undoing, learns that the erosion of memory extirpates nothing and only compounds one's regrets. (V) Bravado: another distrubing story, this time about a lad trying to impress his girlfriend by beating another lad on the way home from a party with fatal consequents. “Men of Ireland” has the elderly Father Meade being visited by Donal Prunty, 52, a onetime altar boy gone derelict with the years. (IV) Cheating at Canasta: a man returning to venice in response to a wish made by his wife before dementia took hold of her. Henry Award winner, the future seems predetermined for rural mechanic Cahal, until the preteen daughter of the village dressmaker runs at his car with a stone in her hand. The publication of a new book by William Trevor is a true literary event. The 12 stories of Trevor's latest collection blend an orchestra conductor's feel for subtlety with a monsignor's banishment of moral ambiguity. Cheating at Canasta audiobook, by William Trevor.

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