Love and Summer, William Trevor
Love and Summer, William Trevor
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Love and Summer

Author: William Trevor

Narrator: Jim Norton

Unabridged: 5 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/26/2010


Synopsis

An author who has received international critical acclaim for his exquisite prose, William Trevor saw his novel The Story of Lucy Gault short-listed for the prestigious Booker Prize. Love and Summer tells the tale of Ellie Dillahan, an orphan entered into a bleak future with the man she wed. As the story unfolds, Ellie's life is thrown into tumult by a fateful encounter with another man. "What other living writer could so regularly follow his own masterpieces . with another and another?"-New York Times Book Review

About William Trevor

William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, in 1928 and spent his childhood in provincial Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of fourteen novels and thirteen collections of short stories, and he has won many prizes. His short stories appeared regularly in the New Yorker, and his Collected Stories was chosen by the editors of the New York Times Book Review as a Best Book of the Year. His novels include Love and Summer, nominated for the Man Booker Prize and selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; The Story of Lucy Gault, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, the Whitbread Fiction Prize, and also selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; and Death in Summer, a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book of the Year.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on April 12, 2017

Set in a small town in Ireland as most of Trevor’s novels are. We open at the funeral of a well-off lady. Her son and daughter are there. They run a hotel and boarding house and the daughter takes over the operation of the family business after the mother’s death. We soon learn that the dead mother......more

Goodreads review by Glenn on July 13, 2020

A Perfect Summer Read I've read one or two short stories by the prolific Irish writer William Trevor, who died in 2016, but this is the first novel I've read by him. It definitely won't be the last. Set in the mid-1950s in and around the fictional Irish town of Rathmoye, the short but dense book foll......more