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Shirley Curran
Shirley Curran
 

Several William Trevor novels and short stories were given to me. What a delight!

Eighty years of experience shine through his lucid prose and I have been enthralled by the suspense he maintains in horrifying stories like Felicia’s Journey (a fugitive pregnant Irish girl preyed upon by an apparently gentle middle-aged man) or Death in Summer (a baby kidnapped by an obsessive rejected nanny).

The remarkable similarity to Dickens strikes me. Trevor’s characters are so unforgettable and plausible, steeped in the social environment that nurtures them. The modern novel does not often present such sincere and likeable characters. Yes, even the psycopaths earn our empathy.

The Irish background is very evocative, too. The Story of Lucy Gault was, for me, the loveliest and most haunting of the Trevor works I have so far read.

Posted by :: Shirley Curran on 31 March 2008 at 8:00 | permalink
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GenevaLunch, 31 March 2008.

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