Looking back for fiction's big one Oct 3, 2009
The Irish are sulking because neither William Trevor nor Colm Toibin made the cut from long list to short. Welcome to the 2009 Man Booker Prize. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Literature: A reader’s feast, but why? Sep 23, 2009
But so too are Alice Munro, William Trevor, Margaret Atwood, and Anne Tyler, to say nothing of notables like Jonathan Lethem and Lorrie Moore. Even rabid readers should have ample diversion during the long, cold months to come. (Boston Globe)
The Encumbrance of Things Past Sep 22, 2009
William Trevor's Love and Summer ... Anglo-Irish writer William Trevor writes novels and stories set in England, where he lives, and novels and stories set in Ireland, where he was born, and each setting engenders a distinct tonality ... The mystery of William Trevor's nostalgia. (Slate)
William Trevor, once a sculptor, expertly chisels out the story hidden in marble Sep 20, 2009
William Trevor begins Love and Summer, his sad tale of hopeless love, on a June evening in the middle of the last century in Rathmoye, Ireland ... LOVE AND SUMMER By William Trevor Viking , 212 pp. (Boston Globe)
Fall feast for fiction lovers Sep 13, 2009
Authors releasing books this month include Lorrie Moore, William Trevor, Margaret Atwood, Nicholson Baker, Joyce Carol Oates, and Anne Tyler. Alice Munro, Jonathan Lethem, Philip Roth, and the late Kurt Vonnegut have new titles coming soon, too. (Boston Globe)
The here and now could fill a book Sep 12, 2009
As the two books that many critics regard as the most grievous omissions from the list are both set in the 1950s - William Trevor's Love and Summer and Colm Toibin's Brooklyn - even those most resistant to cultural generalisation will struggle to deny a trend ... Several of the books that either reached or narrowly missed the Booker six - including the William Trevor and Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger - featured characters questioning whether to submit to a romantic possibility. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Coetzee goes for third Booker prize Sep 9, 2009
In a line-up with a strong focus on historical fiction, the favourite, Hilary Mantel, also made the final six, alongside Sarah Waters, but perennial Booker bridesmaids Colm Toibin (who has been shortlisted twice before) and acclaimed Irish novelist William Trevor (shortlisted four times) failed to make the cut. Former Herald correspondent, Ed O'Loughlin, whose first novel Not Untrue and Not Unkind was on the initial list, did not make the shortlist. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Leaves and pages turn in the fall books preview Sep 7, 2009
by William Trevor (Viking). A sleepy Irish town wakes up with the arrival of a stranger; by the author of "Felicia's Journey.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Chimp's memoir contends for Booker Prize Jul 31, 2009
Other contenders announced Tuesday are former Booker winners A.S. Byatt and J.M. Coetzee, as well as Adam Foulds, Sarah Hall, Samantha Harvey, Hilary Mantel, Simon Mawer, Ed O'Loughlin, James Scudamore, Sarah Waters, William Trevor and Colm Toibin. The short list will be announced Sept. 8 and the winner of the $82,000 prize on Oct. 6. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Literary giants make for strong Booker longlist Jul 30, 2009
The competition will be strong from a field that includes another former winner (for Possession in 1990), A.S. Byatt, for The Children s Book, about the Edwardian cult of childhood and the devastation of war; Hilary Mantel s Wolf Hall, about Henry VIII s court; Sarah Waters s haunted The Little Stranger; Colm Toibin s Brooklyn, about an Irish immigrant in New York in the 1950s; and William Trevor s Love and Summer. Two other first-time novelists made the cut from 132 entries: James Lever for Me... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Booker longlist Jul 29, 2009
William Trevor "Love and Summer". Sarah Waters "The Little Stranger". (The Age, Australia)
Chimp's Memoir Is Contender for Prestigious Lit Award Jul 29, 2009
Other contenders announced Tuesday are former Booker winners A.S. Byatt and J.M Coetzee, as well as Adam Foulds, Sarah Hall, Samantha Harvey, Hilary Mantel, Simon Mawer, Ed O'Loughlin, James Scudamore, Sarah Waters, William Trevor and Colm Toibin. The shortlist will be announced Sept. 8 and the winner of the 50,000 pound ($82,000) prize on Oct. 6. (Fox News)
Booker Prize longlist is revealed Jul 29, 2009
BOOKER LONGLIST 2009 AS Byatt - The Children's Book JM Coetzee - Summertime Adam Foulds - The Quickening Maze Sarah Hall - How to paint a dead man Samantha Harvey - The Wilderness James Lever - Me Cheeta Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall Simon Mawer - The Glass Room Ed O'Loughlin - Not Untrue & Not Unkind James Scudamore - Heliopolis Colm Toibin - Brooklyn William Trevor - Love and Summer Sarah Waters - The Little Stranger. It also features three first-time novelists, including James Lever. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
233 receive degrees at university's Calexico campus May 22, 2009
One got A Tale of Two Cities, another got a collection of works by William Trevor, a modern Irish author. A much larger contingent in the class of 2009 majored in criminal justice studies. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
Love, American style May 10, 2009
The great William Trevor can write of the wild country to be found in humble lives; T. ib. (Boston Globe)
Helen Humphreys's 'Coventry' Mar 14, 2009
It has inspired writers from Proust to Woolf to William Trevor and produced some of the most beguiling prose in modern fiction. And yet it is a dangerous instinct, writes the reviewer Adam Haslett. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Books: Review: The Good Parents Feb 23, 2009
London, who's Australian, recalls celebrated British stylists - Elizabeth Bowen, William Trevor - and another Aussie native, Shirley Hazzard. Like theirs, London's language is so lovely, her tone so gentle, that the sadness of her truths is somehow shocking. (International Herald Tribune)
