Dimensions
143 x 223 x 25mm
The Hill Bachelors is William Trevor's first collection of stories since the highly acclaimed After Rain was published in 1996. It contains a dozen new stories, set mostly but not entirely in Ireland, that show Trevor to be writing at the height of his powers.In 'Three People', an ageing father waits for the proposal for his daughter that will never come from the man who once told a lie to save her; in 'Against the Odds', a con-woman who has plied her trade across the entire Six Counties fixes this time on a widower in a small inland town; and in the poignant title-story, the youngest son returns for his father's funeral to the family hill farm to find it has become his unwelcome inheritance.William Trevor writes with understatement and precision about the lonely and the sad, about those who have something to hide and those who barely have control over their lives.
