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Excursions in the Real World - Hardcover

Trevor, William

 
9780091770860: Excursions in the Real World

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These autobiographical essays are about the people and places that have remained snagged in the author's memory over the years. They include Persia in the 1970s, a Swiss valley, County Cork in the 1930s, New York in 1973, a Gloucestershire village and Venice in November.

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William Trevor was born in Cork in 1928. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and has spent a great part of his life in Ireland. Since his first novel, The Old Boys, was awarded the Hawthorne Prize in 1964, he has received many honours for his work including the Royal Society of Literature Award, the allied Irish Banks Prize for Literature and the Whitbread Prize for fiction. He is a member of the Irish Academy of Letters and he has bee awarded an Honorary CBE. His most recent books are Two Lives and The Collected Stories of William Trevor.
Lucy Willis works principally in watercolour an etching and is one of the most versatile of contemporary British artists. Her growing reputation as a portraitist in oils was confirmed in 1992 when she won first prize in the BP National Portrait Gallery Award.

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