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William Trevor
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With a career that spanned more than half a century, William Trevor is regarded as one of the best writers of short stories in the English language. Now, in Last Stories, the master storyteller delivers ten exquisitely rendered tales - nine of which have never been published in book form - that illuminate the human condition and will surely linger in the listener's mind.
Subtle yet powerful, Trevor's stories give us insights into the lives of ordinary people. We encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed dead is alive and well; and a piano-teacher who accepts her student's serial thefts in exchange for his beautiful music.
This final and special collection is a gift to lovers of literature and Trevor's many admirers, and affirms his place as one of the world's greatest storytellers.
©2018 The Estate of William Trevor (P)2018 TantorLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Writing of the highest order
- De Kathleen en 10-07-05
De: William Trevor
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Cheating at Canasta
- Short Story Collection
- De: William Trevor
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley, Gerard Doyle, Heather O'Neill, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 57 m
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The publication of a new book by William Trevor is a true literary event. One of our finest chroniclers of the human condition, Trevor's precise and unflinching insights into the lives of ordinary people are evidenced once again in this stunning collection of twelve stories. Subtle yet powerful, these exquisitely nuanced tales of regret, deception, adultery, aging, and forgiveness are a rare pleasure, and they confirm Trevor's reputation as a master of the form.
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Not Trevor's Best
- De Cariola en 05-28-14
De: William Trevor
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Antarctica
- Stories
- De: Claire Keegan
- Narrado por: Sheena May, Aoife McMahon, Aidan Quinn, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 24 m
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From the titular story about a married woman who takes a trip to the city with a single purpose in mind—to sleep with another man—Antarctica draws listeners into a world of obsession, betrayal, and fragile relationships. Cordelia wakes on the last day of the twentieth century and sets off to keep a date nine years in the waiting. Frank Corso mourns the curious disappearance of his daughter and tries desperately to reach out to his shattered wife. Throughout the collection, Keegan's characters inhabit a world where dreams, memory, and chance can have crippling consequences.
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Incredible, but out of order and missing one story
- De Jason en 07-26-23
De: Claire Keegan
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The Story of Lucy Gault
- De: William Trevor
- Narrado por: Katherine Borowitz
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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The Story of Lucy Gault traces the repercussions of a child’s attempt to remain in her beloved home.Threatened with a move from Ireland to England, 9-year-old Lucy runs away, setting off a series of misunderstandings that will eventually touch each inhabitant of her village.
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- De Wendy B Dwyer en 02-01-25
De: William Trevor
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So Late in the Day
- De: Claire Keegan
- Narrado por: Claire Keegan
- Duración: 50 m
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After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently. All evening, with only the television and a bottle of champagne for company, thoughts of this woman and others intrude - and the true significance of this particular date is revealed.
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This Audible is not the full Kindle/Book version.
- De Mary F. en 11-26-23
De: Claire Keegan
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Foster
- De: Claire Keegan
- Narrado por: Aoife McMahon
- Duración: 1 h y 26 m
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It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas' house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household—where everything is so well tended to—and this summer must soon come to an end.
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A story that will stay with me a long time
- De CTKG en 11-01-22
De: Claire Keegan
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A Bit on the Side
- De: William Trevor
- Narrado por: Josephine Bailey, Simon Vance
- Duración: 5 h y 58 m
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William Trevor is truly a Chekhov for our age, and a new collection of stories from him is always a cause for celebration.
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Writing of the highest order
- De Kathleen en 10-07-05
De: William Trevor
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Cheating at Canasta
- Short Story Collection
- De: William Trevor
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley, Gerard Doyle, Heather O'Neill, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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Historia
The publication of a new book by William Trevor is a true literary event. One of our finest chroniclers of the human condition, Trevor's precise and unflinching insights into the lives of ordinary people are evidenced once again in this stunning collection of twelve stories. Subtle yet powerful, these exquisitely nuanced tales of regret, deception, adultery, aging, and forgiveness are a rare pleasure, and they confirm Trevor's reputation as a master of the form.
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Not Trevor's Best
- De Cariola en 05-28-14
De: William Trevor
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Antarctica
- Stories
- De: Claire Keegan
- Narrado por: Sheena May, Aoife McMahon, Aidan Quinn, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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From the titular story about a married woman who takes a trip to the city with a single purpose in mind—to sleep with another man—Antarctica draws listeners into a world of obsession, betrayal, and fragile relationships. Cordelia wakes on the last day of the twentieth century and sets off to keep a date nine years in the waiting. Frank Corso mourns the curious disappearance of his daughter and tries desperately to reach out to his shattered wife. Throughout the collection, Keegan's characters inhabit a world where dreams, memory, and chance can have crippling consequences.
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Incredible, but out of order and missing one story
- De Jason en 07-26-23
De: Claire Keegan
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The Story of Lucy Gault
- De: William Trevor
- Narrado por: Katherine Borowitz
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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The Story of Lucy Gault traces the repercussions of a child’s attempt to remain in her beloved home.Threatened with a move from Ireland to England, 9-year-old Lucy runs away, setting off a series of misunderstandings that will eventually touch each inhabitant of her village.
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Style
- De Wendy B Dwyer en 02-01-25
De: William Trevor
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So Late in the Day
- De: Claire Keegan
- Narrado por: Claire Keegan
- Duración: 50 m
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After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently. All evening, with only the television and a bottle of champagne for company, thoughts of this woman and others intrude - and the true significance of this particular date is revealed.
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This Audible is not the full Kindle/Book version.
- De Mary F. en 11-26-23
De: Claire Keegan
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Foster
- De: Claire Keegan
- Narrado por: Aoife McMahon
- Duración: 1 h y 26 m
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It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas' house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household—where everything is so well tended to—and this summer must soon come to an end.
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A story that will stay with me a long time
- De CTKG en 11-01-22
De: Claire Keegan
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Last Stories
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- Doctor Bob
- 06-07-23
Don’t waste your time
These stories are depressing and unfulfilling. The characters are not admirable. At the conclusion of each story there is no resolution. There are much better ways to spend your time than reading or listening to these dreary tales.
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- W Perry Hall
- 07-01-18
William Trevor's Last Literary Gems
Trevor's mastery is not in prose or 'structure' in the literary sense of the word. He is a maestro in constructing a story that reveals some human emotion or ice-shattering effects of our homocentric interactions. One way to describe this might be that he erects a Jenga tower of some human condition nudging the reader toward an ending that takes her breath away like a) pulling out the wrong block and all falls down, or b) removing just the right one, leaving her in awe at Trevor's perfection.
Trevor's final focus, in his Last Stories, seems primarily on the deception and various varieties of betrayal, and its short- and long-term adverse effects on betrayer, betrayed and those collaterally damaged, and the harm done by one's inability to cope with disappointments flowing from high expectations. As examples, a father's betrayal by deception of a daughter who in turn attempts to betray herself by self-deception; a betrayal borne of pity of a woman without a family or friends; out of pity arises a man's betrayal of his family and an ironic lesson in the pain and cost of unrequited love; how a double betrayal by husband and best friend leads to a betrayal of self and humanity in the black heart of vengeance.
In 'Giotto's Angels,' which overlies a Dante Eighth Circle special betrayal, Trevor captures the reader with a tale (a bit allegorical possibly) of good versus evil, beauty versus ugliness.
Probably the best of the brilliant bunch is 'An Idyll in Winter,' in which a married man visits the farm estate of a girl who had fallen head over heels for him when he tutored her maybe ten years in the past. The story delves into the devastating fallout from adultery, but moreso from the girl's inability to accept that love cannot be perfect (maybe especially so for love once unrequited and for love on which a betrayal of another is built), it will not stay a winter white idyll, which leads to the biting and ironic self-rationalization: '...she only wishes the men could know that love unchanged is as it was, is there for him among her shadows, for her in rooms and places as familiar to him as they are to her. She wishes they could know it will not wither, that there'll be no long slow dying, or love made ordinary.'
Highly recommended. The literary world has lost a great one.
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- San Rafael, CA
- 09-23-18
Stories in a melancholic key
All around a theme of emptiness, loneliness, misspent lives, and betrayal. Simon Vance excels as usual.
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- Ann
- 12-01-18
List of Titles
The Piano Teacher's Pupil
A Crippled Man
At the Caffe Daria
Taking Mr. Ravenswood
Mrs. Crasthorpe
The Unknown Girl
Making Conversation
Giotto's Angels
An Idyll in Winter
The Women
The combination of William Trevor's moving short stories and Simon Vance's beautifull reading is perfection.
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- Sharlotte
- 07-21-20
Overhyped Praise
Between George's sleep-inducing narration and these boring stories, I am left befuddled how anyone could rate this over 3 stars at most. I had to restart the first story five times because my mind immediately wandered. The same happened with the rest of the book. It totally failed at holding my attention. I gave it up to Chapter 7 and had to quit wasting my time.
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