{"product_id":"the-collected-stories-isbn-9780140232455","title":"The Collected Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of short stories from celebrated author William Trevor in which he shines a light on the day-to-day life of Ireland and its citizens. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom his debut collection, “The Day We Got Drunk on Cake,” published in 1968, to “Family Sins” (1990), William Trevor has crafted the short story to perfection, giving us brilliant and subtle stories full of the reversals, surprises, and shadowy truths we discover in life itself. To read this volume is not just to encounter an extraordinary literary stylist, but to understand life as surely as though we were looking through the eyes of his protagonists and—deeper still—into their hearts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Trevor: The Collected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e includes the tales from his seven previous books, as well as four stories that have never appeared in book form in America. They depict the comforts and frustrations of life in rural Ireland, the complexities of family relationships, and the elusive grace of love. They portray the almost invisible strands that bind people to each other as well as the chains that imprison them in solitary yearning.The Collected Stories       A Meeting in Middle Age\u003cbr\u003eAccess to the Children\u003cbr\u003eThe General's Day\u003cbr\u003eMemories of Youghal\u003cbr\u003eThe Table\u003cbr\u003eA School Story\u003cbr\u003eThe Penthouse Apartment\u003cbr\u003eIn at the Birth\u003cbr\u003eThe Introspections of J. P. Powers\u003cbr\u003eThe Day We Got Drunk on Cake\u003cbr\u003eMiss Smith\u003cbr\u003eThe Hotel of the Idle Moon\u003cbr\u003eNice Day at School\u003cbr\u003eThe Original Sins of Edward Tripp\u003cbr\u003eThe Forty-seventh Saturday\u003cbr\u003eThe Ballroom of Romance\u003cbr\u003eA Happy Family\u003cbr\u003eThe Grass Widows\u003cbr\u003eThe Mark-2 Wife\u003cbr\u003eAn Evening with John Joe Dempsey\u003cbr\u003eKinkies\u003cbr\u003eGoing Home\u003cbr\u003eA Choice of Butchers\u003cbr\u003eO Fat White Woman\u003cbr\u003eRaymond Bamber and Mrs. Fitch\u003cbr\u003eThe Distant Past\u003cbr\u003eIn Isfahan\u003cbr\u003eAngels at the Ritz\u003cbr\u003eThe Death of Peggy Meehan\u003cbr\u003eMrs. Silly\u003cbr\u003eA Complicated Nature\u003cbr\u003eTeresa's Wedding\u003cbr\u003eOffice Romances\u003cbr\u003eMr. McNamara\u003cbr\u003eAfternoon Dancing\u003cbr\u003eLast Wishes\u003cbr\u003eMrs. Acland's Ghosts\u003cbr\u003eAnother Christmas\u003cbr\u003eBroken Homes\u003cbr\u003eMatilda's England: 1. The Tennis Court; 2. The Summer-house; 3. The Drawing-room\u003cbr\u003eTorridge\u003cbr\u003eDeath in Jerusalem\u003cbr\u003eLovers of Their Time\u003cbr\u003eThe Raising of Elvira Tremlett\u003cbr\u003eFlights of Fancy\u003cbr\u003eAttracta\u003cbr\u003eA Dream of Butterflies\u003cbr\u003eThe Bedroom Eyes of Mrs. Vansittart\u003cbr\u003eDownstairs at Fitzgerald's\u003cbr\u003eMulvihill's Memorial\u003cbr\u003eBeyond the Pale\u003cbr\u003eThe Blue Dress\u003cbr\u003eThe Teddy-bears' Picnic\u003cbr\u003eThe Time of Year\u003cbr\u003eBeing Stolen From\u003cbr\u003eMr Tennyson\u003cbr\u003eAutumn Sunshine\u003cbr\u003eSunday Drinks\u003cbr\u003eThe Paradise Lounge\u003cbr\u003eMags\u003cbr\u003eThe News from Ireland\u003cbr\u003eOn the Zattere\u003cbr\u003eThe Wedding in the Garden\u003cbr\u003eLunch in Winter\u003cbr\u003eThe Property of Colette Nervi\u003cbr\u003eRunning Away\u003cbr\u003eCocktails at Doney's\u003cbr\u003eHer Mother's Daughter\u003cbr\u003eBodily Secrets\u003cbr\u003eTwo More Gallants\u003cbr\u003eThe Smoke Trees of San Pietro\u003cbr\u003eVirgins\u003cbr\u003eMusic\u003cbr\u003eEvents at Drimaghleen\u003cbr\u003eFamily Sins\u003cbr\u003eA Trinity\u003cbr\u003eThe Third Party\u003cbr\u003eHoneymoon in Tramore\u003cbr\u003eThe Printmaker\u003cbr\u003eIn Love with Ariadne\u003cbr\u003eA Husband's Return\u003cbr\u003eCoffee with Oliver\u003cbr\u003eAugust Saturday\u003cbr\u003eChildren of the Headmaster\u003cbr\u003eKathleen's Field\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments“Extraordinary . . . Mr. Trevor’s sheer intensity of entry into the lives of his people . . . proceeds to uncover new layers of yearning and pain, new angles of vision and credible thought.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the finest writers now at work in our language . . . No writer practicing the form today moves with nimbler assurances than Trevor across such an impressive gamut of social types and emotional connections.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The indisputable master of twentieth-century fiction . . . Trevor’s carefully chiseled, lyrical prose—at once ironic and elegiac—is addictive, his insights acutely compassionate. The tales are haunting and profound.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A textbook for anyone who ever wanted to write a story, and a treasure for anyone who loves to read them.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Madision Smartt Bell, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The range of characters that Trevor manages to bring onstage is little short of astonishing. . . . A remarkable record of the distinctive imprint that Trevor has left on what is arguably this century’s quintessential art form.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Newsday\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Trevor \u003c\/b\u003ewas 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 \u003ci\u003eFelicia’s Journey\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was made into a motion picture, and \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Lucy Gault,\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e as best books of the year, and his short stories appeared regularly in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1997, he was named Honorary Commander of the British Empire.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303809044709,"sku":"NP9780140232455","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140232455.jpg?v=1767738734","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-collected-stories-isbn-9780140232455","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}