Autobiographical essays, about people and places, personal enthusiasms and fascinations, that have remained snagged in William Trevor's memory over the years. He writes of childhood, school and university, early days in Dublin, writing in London.
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A true master of fiction, a writer the New Yorker has called "probably the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language," brings his considerable gifts to non-fiction in this brilliant collection of essays. Marked with Trevor's deft irony and subtle gifts for illuminating characters, Excursions in the Real World collects more than two dozen deeply personal memoirs of the artistic life.
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Prolific fiction writer Trevor presents an autobiography in 29 vignettes, spanning his youth in Ireland and later years in '60s London and Watergate-era New York City.
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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.
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The Autobiography of a Contemporary Master,
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Admirers of Trevor's masterly fiction will enjoy these incisive, witty, heartbreaking essays revisiting his youth and early adulthood. The short piece about his parents is probably the most moving thing he's ever written. Most writers use autobiography to settle scores; Trevor uses it to give shape to the life of memory--a shape, in its own way, just as artful and just as true as the shape he gives to the life of his fiction.
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Anything this guy writes is 5 star. This "real world" is the author's world. This is autobiographical his life vs. fiction. Worth the reading, for his talent and his honesty.
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MY EARLIEST MEMORIES are of County Cork: of sunshine and weeds in a garden at Mitchelstown. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maths Man, Miss Shulz, Marchant Smith, County Cork, Elm Park, Miss Quirke, New York, San Francisco, Senior Boarder, Henry O'Reilly, Old Pastry, Dining Hall, Miss Scott, Miss Willoughby, O'Connell Street, Orient Express, Paddy Lyndon, Sylvia Plath, County Wexford, David Wevill, Delancey Street, Frig Allt, Front Square, High Table, Long Stewart New!
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MY EARLIEST MEMORIES are of County Cork: of sunshine and weeds in a garden at Mitchelstown. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maths Man, Miss Shulz, Marchant Smith, County Cork, Elm Park, Miss Quirke, New York, San Francisco, Senior Boarder, Henry O'Reilly, Old Pastry, Dining Hall, Miss Scott, Miss Willoughby, O'Connell Street, Orient Express, Paddy Lyndon, Sylvia Plath, County Wexford, David Wevill, Delancey Street, Frig Allt, Front Square, High Table, Long Stewart New!
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- Confession of a Fool by August Strindberg on page 151, and page 152
- Venice for Pleasure (Pallas for Pleasure) by J.G. Links on page 191, and page 195
- Fools of Fortune by William Trevor in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- William Trevor: The Collected Stories by William Trevor in Front Matter
- Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett on page 183
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- For the Love of Ireland: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers by Susan Cahill on page 139
- The Afterlife: Essays and Criticism by Penelope Fitzgerald on page 288
- Understanding Penelope Fitzgerald (Understanding Contemporary British Literature) by Peter Wolfe in Back Matter
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