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Two Lives

Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria

William Trevor

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English
Penguin
15 June 2010
William Trevor'sLast Storiesis forthcoming from Viking.

In Reading Turgenev, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, an Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man, but finds release through secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian novels.

My House in Umbra tells of Emily Delahunty, a writer of romantic novels, who helps survivors of a bomb attack on a train to convalesce, inventing colorful pasts for her patients.

Two novels, two women who retreat further into the realm of the imagination until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurred.
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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 24mm
Weight:   273g
ISBN:   9780141044613
ISBN 10:   0141044616
Pages:   384
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria

As rich and moving as anything I have read in years. When I reached the end of both of these marvellous novels, I wanted to start right again at the beginning Guardian These novels will endure. And in every beautiful sentence there is not a word out of place -- Anita Brookner Spectator Inquisitive and loving. Trevor's is among the most subtle and sophisticated fiction being written today New York Review of Books A writer at the peak of his powers; it reminds you what good reading is all about Chicago Sun Times Reading Turgenev is one of the most beautiful and memorable things he has written. It stays in your memory -like Turgenev Independent on Sunday He writes like an angel, but is determined to wring your heart. Trevor at his most evocative and haunting Daily Mail


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