Excursions in the Real World (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: William Trevor Cox
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: The 1930’s to 1991
- Setting: Ireland, England, Switzerland, and Iran
- Principal Characters: William Trevor, James William Cox, Gertrude Davison Cox
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Family or family life, Art or artists, Marriage, Schools or school life, Novelists, England or English people, Divorce, Ireland or Irish people, Habits
- Locales: England, Ireland, Switzerland, Iran
William Trevor has been called England’s greatest living short-story writer, an honor he shares, if such an honor can be, with V. S. Pritchett. Trevor (whose full name is William Trevor Cox) is, like many British writers, Irish by birth, but as he lived much of his adult life in England and has often written of English subjects, he has been adopted or at least hyphenated into Anglo-Irish. The question of national roots is not irrelevant, any more than is the fact that Trevor’s family, like Pritchett’s, moved frequently during his youth, upsetting his schooling, throwing him on his...
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