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Article: The quiet of sadness New stories by Irish master William Trevor
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 29, 1996
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AFTER RAIN
By William Trevor. Viking. 213 pp. $22.95.
Gail Caldwell is chief book critic of the Globe.
Even knowing the covenant of sorrows that lies ahead, one settles
into the rhythm of William Trevor's stories as though lured onto a
slow-moving train. Maybe it's the perfect simplicity and yet danger
of those opening sentences: "Violet married the piano tuner when he
was a young man." Or: "Gerard and Rebecca became brother and sister
after a turmoil of distress." As such circumstances reveal
themselves -- as we encounter the piano tuner, glimpse the trouble
that Gerard and Rebecca shared -- it is the very inevitability of the
stories that seems to weight them with such reality. The Irish ...