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Article: William Trevor: the Writer and His Work. (book review)
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- Studies in Short Fiction
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- September 22, 1999
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by Dolores MacKenna. Dublin: New Island Books, 1999; Chester Springs, Pennsylvania: Dufour Editions, 1999. 250 pages. $18.95 paper.
As William Trevor's long and lustrous writing career moves into its final stages (he's in his mid-70s, though still very productive), certain intriguing questions about him emerge: Is Trevor foremost a novelist who also happens to write short stories, or is he a short-story writer who expands story material into novels? Should he be considered a British writer whose best work is about English life, or do his Irish stories and novels place him primarily in the tradition of Joyce and others Irish writers? Is his view of life ...