William Trevor is truly a Chekhov for our age, and a new collection
of stories from him is always a cause for celebration. In these
twelve stories, a waiter divulges his shocking life of crime to his
ex-wife; a woman repeats the story of her parents' unstable marriage
after a horrible tragedy; a schoolgirl regrets gossiping about the
cuckolded man who tutors her; and, in the volume's title story, a
middle-age accountant offers his reasons for ending a love affair. At
the heart of this stunning collection is Trevor's characteristic
tenderness and unflinching eye for both the humanizing and
dehumanizing aspects of modern urban and rural life.
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