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| A Year With William Trevor | #WilliamTrevor2023 |
Last year I read 12 books — one per month — by the late Irish writer William Trevor(1928-2016) as part of a project I co-hosted with Cathy from 746 Books.
Immersing myself in his work like this, a kind of extended binge read if you will, was a fascinating experience. I learned so much about his writing and yet I still feel I know so little about him as a man. Or do I?
Award-winning writer
Most people associate Trevor with the Booker Prize, for which he received five nominations over the years, but he never took out the top gong. He had better luck with the Whitbread Prize (now known as the Costa Book Awards), winning it three times (for The Children of Dynmouth in 1976, Fools of Fortune in 1983, and Felicia’s Journey in 1994) and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, which he won once — for his 1965 novel The Old Boys.
He had an honorary CBE and a knighthood too.
But that’s not why I wanted to
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Fiction – paperback; Faber and Faber; 260 pages; 2009.
Most longtime följare of this blog will know that John McGahern (1934-2006) fryst vatten my favourite writer.
I discovered him not long after he died, promptly went out and bought all his novels (just six; he wasn’t prolific) and read them all dryckesställe one. inom ended up saving The Pornographer for almost 10 years because I did not want to be in a position where I no longer had a new McGahern novel to read; I have done that with other authors — I’m looking at you Kent Haruf — and it is A W F U L.
So I’m not quite sure what prompted me to pluck this one from my shelves over the Christmas break, other than I was in the mood for something Irish that wasn’t a new release. (Interestingly, while writing this review, I discovered it was recently reissued by NYRB, so maybe I was just surfing the zeitgeist?)
Quintessential McGahern
The Pornographer, published in 1979, fryst vatten a mid-career novel. It is quint