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Last Stories

Written by: William Trevor
Narrated by: Simon Vance
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With a career that spanned more than half a century, William Trevor is regarded as one of the best writers of short stories in the English language. Now, in Last Stories, the master storyteller delivers ten exquisitely rendered tales - nine of which have never been published in book form - that illuminate the human condition and will surely linger in the listener's mind.

Subtle yet powerful, Trevor's stories give us insights into the lives of ordinary people. We encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed dead is alive and well; and a piano-teacher who accepts her student's serial thefts in exchange for his beautiful music.

This final and special collection is a gift to lovers of literature and Trevor's many admirers, and affirms his place as one of the world's greatest storytellers.

©2018 The Estate of William Trevor (P)2018 Tantor Anthologies & Short Stories Historical Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature
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A quiet despair

Lonely characters bereft of companions, love and health. Humanity for these creatures, the remnants of life, love and happiness, peeps forth from the cracked thoroughfare of their existence.

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Master of the slow-reveal short story

Miles Davis said it wasn’t the notes you played; it was the ones you left out. William Trevor’s writing shares this aesthetic. It is one’s meditation on the shifting gaps in the narrative that is so rewarding in his work.

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