{"product_id":"two-lives-isbn-9780141044613","title":"Two Lives","description":"\u003cb\u003eWilliam Trevor's \u003ci\u003eLast Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is forthcoming from Viking.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eReading Turgenev\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy House in Umbra \u003c\/i\u003etells of Emily Delahunty, a writer of romantic novels, who helps survivors of a bomb attack on a train to convalesce, inventing colorful pasts for her patients.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo novels, two women who retreat further into the realm of the imagination until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurred.“\u003ci\u003eTwo Lives\u003c\/i\u003e offers two superb novels in one volume . . . as rich and moving as anything I have read in years. . . . Marvelous.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A sensibility reigns here which is at once inquisitive and loving. . . . Trevor’s is among the most subtle and sophisticated fiction being written today.” —John Banville, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A writer at the peak of his powers; [\u003ci\u003eTwo Lives\u003c\/i\u003e] reminds you what good reading is all about.” —Anne Tyler, \u003ci\u003eChicago Sun Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the most beautiful and memorable things Trevor has written.” —Hermione Lee, \u003ci\u003eThe Independent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e (U.K.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“These novels will endure. And in every beautiful sentence there is not a word out of place.” —Anita Brookner, \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e (U.K.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Trevor’s adroit playing-off of two worlds in each of the Two Lives—the sterile and the sublime—enables him to balance humor and heartbreak in perfect equilibrium.” —John Walsh, \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“He writes like an angel, but is determined to wring your heart . . . Trevor at his most evocative and haunting.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e (U.K.)\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":46305228947685,"sku":"NP9780141044613","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780141044613.jpg?v=1767743090","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/two-lives-isbn-9780141044613","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}