“Trevor was our twentieth century Chekov."
—Wall Street Journal
Selected as one of
The New York Times Book Review
's 10 Best Books of the Year.
Four-time winner of the O. Henry Prize, three-time winner of the Whitbread Award, and five-time nominee for the Booker Prize, William Trevor is one of the most acclaimed authors of our era. Over a career spanning more than half a century, Trevor has crafted exquisitely rendered tales that brilliantly illuminate the human condition. A powerful collection by "the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language" (
The New Yorker
),
Selected Stories
brings together forty-eight stories from
After Rain, The Hill Bachelors, A Bit on the Side
, and
Cheating at Canasta
.