The William Trevor Reader: “Her Mother’s Daughter”

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It’s difficult to imagine what would compel someone to write a story like this.
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The William Trevor Reader: “Cocktails at Doney’s”

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It is no longer possible to write fiction about impotence, a great and storied subject.
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The William Trevor Reader: “Running Away”

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I realize, writing this, that I sound annoyed, and I think I am, a little.
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The William Trevor Reader: “The Property of Colette Nervi”

Trevor’s fiction is in one simple sense a fiction of difficulty.

The William Trevor Reader: “Lunch in Winter”

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Knowing the lies one must tell oneself is a form of deep and unsparing self-knowledge.
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The William Trevor Reader: “The Wedding in the Garden”

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The worldview in these stories is firmly pre-therapeutic, as pre-therapeutic as Dickens or Austen.
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The William Trevor Reader: “On the Zattere”

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I’m truly undecided on whether Trevor succeeds with this story. 
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The William Trevor Reader: “The Blue Dress”

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William Trevor was actually pretty bad at writing about mental illness.
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The William Trevor Reader: “Beyond the Pale”

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Here we have a female narrator who sounds like her own person, not merely a Trevor stand-in.
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