My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so.' Conscious or not, he touches us in ways that few writers even dare to try. Trevor is, in his own words, 'a storyteller. Here we encounter a blind piano tuner whose wonderful memories of his first wife are cruelly distorted by his second a woman in a difficult marriage who must choose between her indignant husband and her closest friend two children, survivors of divorce, who mimic their parents' melodramas and a heartbroken woman traveling alone in Italy who experiences an epiphany while studying a forgotten artist's Annunciation. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world, 5 he is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language. In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumbs the depths of the human heart. William Trevor Cox KBE ( 20 November 2016), known by his pen name William Trevor, was an Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer. 'There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world' Wall Street Journal After Rain - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor
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