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Article: Glittering prizes; The Hill Bachelors. By William Trevor (Viking pounds 15.99). Reviewed by Marianne Nault William Trevor - described as the Chekhov of our time.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- November 11, 2000
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Byline: Marianne Nault
As the Chekhov of our time, the finest living writer of short stories, a worthy chronicler of myriad lives, William Trevor has basked in the praise and prizes of his peers and critics round the world.
Nobody does it better, as the song goes. It was during that long hot summer of 1976 that I read The Ballroom of Romance and I can recall vividly each story in that collection - now reprinted in a tome of over 1,500 pages of his Collected Stories.
Re-reading the tales is like coming home to Trevor-land, the real-life characters ...