Trevor, William (Pseudonym of William Trevor Cox) (Vol. 9) - Trevor, William (Pseudonym of William Trevor Cox) 1928–
Trevor, William (Pseudonym of William Trevor Cox) 1928–
Trevor is an Irish-born novelist, short writer, and playwright now living in England. His work is characterized by a subtle prose style, and his characters, people old and living an isolated existence, are depicted with a sad, whimsical humor. (See also CLC, Vol. 7, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 9-12, rev. ed.)
[The Children of Dynmouth] is a small failure of transplanted suburban Gothic, but it has its interesting points. Mr Trevor is one of those writers who take a certain masochistic pleasure in being confined by the smallness and meretriciousness of the average English domestic emotions. He sees our lives measured out not in coffee-spoons so much as plastic teaspoons, not to mention boxes of Daz, episodes of Crossroads and pints of bogus continental lager….
Timothy Gedge [the central character] is in every way a horror…. The Children of...
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