The Ballroom of Romance [Hardcover]

William Trevor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 19, 1972

William Trevor's second book of short stories proves once again that he is the master of the art.
CONTENTS
Access To The Children
Nice Say At School
The Ballroom Of Romance
The Forty-Seventh Saturday
A Happy Family
Going Home
An Evening With John Joe Dempsey
The Mark-2 Wife
The Grass Widows
A Choice Of Butchers
Kinkies
O Fat White Woman

Product Details

• Hardcover: 269 pages
• Publisher: Viking Adult; 1st US edition (October 19, 1972)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0670146811
• ISBN-13: 978-0670146819
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,529,824 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He has written many novels, and has won many prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. His most recent novel Love and Summer was longlisted for the Booker Prize. He is also a renowned short-story writer, and his two-volume Collected Stories was published by Viking Penguin in 2009. In 1999 William Trevor received the prestigious David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement, and in 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature. He now lives in Devon.