Description
Author: William Trevor
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 09/27/2005
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.08w x 0.45d
ISBN13: 9780143035916
ISBN10: 0143035916
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
William Trevor was 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 Felicia's Journey, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was made into a motion picture, and The Story of Lucy Gault, 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 The New York Times as best books of the year, and his short stories appeared regularly in The New Yorker. In 1997, he was named Honorary Commander of the British Empire.