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The Hill Bachelors - a remarkable collection of stories from the master storyteller William Trevor

''There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world'' The Wall Street Journal

The Hill Bachelors is a stunning meditation on men and women and the heartbreak of missed opportunities: three people are frozen in a conspiracy of silence that prevents love''s consummation; a nine-year-old dreams that a movie part will heal her fragmented family life; a brother and sister forge a new life amid the terrible beauty of Ireland after the Rebellion; and in the title story, a young man chooses between his longtime love and a life of solitude on the family farm. These twelve beautifully rendered tales reveal Trevor''s unrivalled compassion for the human condition.

''His tight, perfected short stories - each an astonishing performance in which melodramatic situations are turned, by acute psychological insight, into classic drama - make him

The Hill Bachelors

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 7 May 2001
      ISBN-13 9780140294699
      978-0140294699
      ISBN-10 0140294694
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      Anthologies & Short Stories

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The Hill Bachelors - a remarkable collection of stories from the master storyteller William Trevor

      ''There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world'' The Wall Street Journal

      The Hill Bachelors is a stunning meditation on men and women and the heartbreak of missed opportunities: three people are frozen in a conspiracy of silence that prevents love''s consummation; a nine-year-old dreams that a movie part will heal her fragmented family life; a brother and sister forge a new life amid the terrible beauty of Ireland after the Rebellion; and in the title story, a young man chooses between his longtime love and a life of solitude on the family farm. These twelve beautifully rendered tales reveal Trevor''s unrivalled compassion for the human condition.

      ''His tight, perfected short stories - each an astonishing performance in which melodramatic situations are turned, by acute psychological insight, into classic drama - make him

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