Excursions in the real world

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Excursions in the real world

William Trevor

Penguin, 1994

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Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 1993

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Autobiographical essays, about people and places, personal enthusiasms and fascinations, that have remained snagged in William Trevor's memory over the years. He writes of childhood, university, early days in Dublin, and writing in London. The essays illuminate Trevor's stories and novels.

Table of Contents

  • In County Cork
  • The Strand
  • Kitty
  • field of battle
  • Miss Quirke
  • bad trip
  • the bull
  • the warden's wife
  • mentors
  • long Stewart
  • alma mater
  • visitors in Dublin
  • summer, 1952
  • Blockley, Gloucestershire
  • a public-house man
  • Sarzy
  • Assia
  • out of season
  • to Persia in the old days
  • New York, 1973
  • in search of Siri
  • the Valle of Verzasca
  • journey to suburbia
  • Eldorado
  • extraordinary ladies
  • in their own shadows
  • Old Fusty
  • with Mr Links in Venice
  • the Nire.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA31655347
  • ISBN
    • 014023845X
  • LCCN
    94086733
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvi, 192 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
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