Description
Title: Excursions in the Real World: Memoirs
Author: William Trevor
ISBN: 9780140240290
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1995
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : A modern master of the short story brings his precise and compassionate observations to bear on his own life, in a book of recollections that is at once funny, poignant, and revealing. As William Trevor records his migration from the shabby-genteel precincts of Ireland’s Protestant middle-class to the sleek vulgarity of London in the swinging sixties, from Cork and Dublin to New York and Isfahan, he yields luminous portraits of the people whose paths crossed his. There is the roaring schoolmaster with the passion for spelling bees; the glamorous emigre with a weakness for faithless poets. There are Trevor’s parents, marooned in a marriage that grew more arid by the year. In “Excursions in the Real World,” Trevor turns memory into a fabulous balancing act between truthfulness and art.
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