

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
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: William Trevor
Narrator: Jim Norton
Unabridged: 5 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 03/26/2010
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
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.
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
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