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Article: William Trevor. Cheating at Canasta.(Book review)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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William Trevor. Cheating at Canasta.
New York. Viking. 2007. 232 pages.
$24.95. ISBN 978-0-670-01837-6
A new collection of stories by William Trevor is a challenge to the reader. You may have to read every story twice, because it could be leading you in some unexpected direction. Take the title story of Cheating at Canasta: it is not about a card game. It is about a man dining alone at Harry's Bar in Venice, eavesdropping on a young couple's conversation at the next table. He has come at his wife's bidding because she is too old and infirm to keep track of the cards when they play canasta: "He cheated at Canasta and she won." His wife, he ...