After Rain (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: William Trevor Cox
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Parents and children, Marriage, Religion, Friendship, Adultery, Ireland or Irish people, Sacrifice
William Trevor has been called the greatest living short-story writer in the language, and the evidence of After Rain suggests that such a view is not misplaced. The twelve stories in this collection are without exception marvelous, illuminating as they do the cracks and fissures in the emotional textures of a wide range of human relationships, in a variety of circumstances and settings. The stories reveal, often through a comment by the narrator coming with sudden force at the very end of the story, what has been endured, sacrificed, lost, compromised, or accepted in situations...
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