Volume 48, Number 3 · February 22, 2001
The World Seen and Half-Seen
By Denis Donoghue
The Hill Bachelors
by William Trevor
Viking, 245 pp., $22.95
OTHER BOOKS BY WILLIAM TREVOR MENTIONED IN THIS ESSAY
Death in Summer (1998)
by William Trevor
Penguin, 214 pp., $12.95 (paper)
After Rain (1996)
by William Trevor
Penguin, 224 pp., $11.95 (paper)
Excursions in the Real World (1994)
by William Trevor
Penguin, 200 pp., $10.95 (paper)
Felicia's Journey (1994)
by William Trevor
Penguin, 212 pp., $12.95 (paper)
The Collected Stories (1993)
by William Trevor
Penguin, 1,261 pp., $19.95 (paper)
Two Lives (1991)
by William Trevor
Penguin, 375 pp., $12.95 (paper)
Nights at the Alexandra (1987)
by William Trevor
Harper, 80 pp. (out of print)
Fools of Fortune (1983)
by William Trevor
Penguin, 238 pp., $11.95 (paper)
William Trevor is an Irish writer by birth, and I take it he considers himself an Irish writer still, although he left Ireland in 1954 and has settled in Devon. He was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, on May 24, 1928 (but I have seen another birthday ascribed to him), to a family Protestant andmiddle-class. His father was a bank official with enough money to send his son to school at Sandford Park, Dublin, and later to St. Columba's College, Rathfarnham, a school 'with a reputation for aloofness, and skill on the hockey field.' At Trinity College, Dublin, he read history but not with particular zeal. He left with an undistinguished degree and eventually found a reliable job in an advertising agency in London. In Excursions in the Real World (1994) Trevor writes with equanimity of his early years:
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