Dec 29, 2009
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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