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These ten poignant stories are exquisite and instantly atmospheric, giving vivid glimpses of varied lives, often involving widows, widowers, or other solitary souls, who seem broadly content, but are contemplating what to do now. Many of the stories have two main threads that seem unrelated but come Leggi tutto

I've only recently started reading this author, feel in love with his stories, his writing which always shows so much compassion. In this collection, his last, he shows how people fare after life's betrayals, often highlighting loneliness and loss. Some are rather grim, but show a marked insight int Leggi tutto

The elation of having read an outstanding short story collection defies description. How often do we stumble on a collection where every story is a gem? Last Stories is a posthumous collection of ten stories by William Trevor published in 2018. In his lifetime, Trevor, a prolific Irish writer, wrote Leggi tutto

William Trevor's Last Literary Gems, or Jengas Review — 5/28/2018 I discovered William Trevor several years ago when listening to the “The New Yorker: Fiction” podcast, from 12/10/07, when Jhumpa Lahiri chose and read Trevor's short story "A Day." You could say, it blew me away. Since then, I've bough Leggi tutto

"But pretences truth is shoddy, without a heart" What an amazing feeling to have a writer's words resonate so strongly with you from the opening sentence. That's how I felt with this book.   "Last stories" simply blew me away. I'd not heard of William Trevor before. It's only from reading Laysee's eloq Leggi tutto

Thank You Laysee for inspiring me to read these short stories: Ten in all: 1 The Piano Teacher’s Pupil 2 The Crippled Man 3 At the Caffè Daria 4 Taking Mr. Ravenswood 5 Mrs.Crasthorp 6 Mrs. Unknown Girl 7 Making Conversation 8 Giotto’s Angels 9 An Idyll Winter 10 The Women The first story - “The Piano Teacher’s Leggi tutto

A reckoning of life in quiet, somber snippets.  Individuals who are alone, but not necessarily lonely.  A man with a groggy memory, another who is simply inadequate, people who have accepted their lot in life.  Loved the passage that spoke of a person's death; with his or her passing, a tale that ha Leggi tutto

4.5 I learned after reading the first story of this collection that it was the last written by Trevor. It may seem slight, but only in comparison with his other writings, a high bar. On the way to my favorite story, the exquisite, disquieting, penultimate one, we are treated to stories of people alon Leggi tutto

This is a book that you can freely judge by its cover, because the stories inside are just as lovely and wistful as the wintry scene on the front. In fact, this was an unplanned read - of a series of short stories no less, something that I mostly shy away from - that I picked up solely because I was Leggi tutto

Vinnicombe Si sente spesso parlare di capolavoro, quel tale film, quella serie, quel romanzo, quel racconto, quell’azione che ha portato al gol, quel tweet, come se ne avessimo un bisogno vitale. Quasi inquietante. Di solito i capolavori, almeno alcuni di loro, non si notano, passanti che non hanno n Leggi tutto