Made to see the complexities beneath the orderly, beautifully composed surfaces of his storytelling. Trevor's readers will also find themselves jolted: gently yet insistently These two women are presented to us in the summer of 1987, when unexpected events will jolt each one, at least temporarily, out of her familiar patterns of behavior. Hand, is the sort of woman who will "not deny that men have offered me gifts, probably all of which I have accepted." The abandoned daughter of English sideshow performers, she has been on her own since her teens, has knockedĪbout (and been knocked about) the seamier parts of several continents and has finally fetched up in the Italian countryside, presiding over a handsome villa bought with the profits of the "business" side of love. Of a provincial Irish merchant, has spent the last 31 years in an asylum for the mentally impaired an escapee from a barren "marriage of convenience," she knows little of love except as fantasy. Mary Louise Quarry and Emily Delahunty, the heroines of "Reading Turgenev" and "My House in Umbria," are each in their mid-50's aside from that, they appear to have absolutely nothing in common. And "Two Lives" is, at first glance, exactly as advertised:Ī pair of short, elegantly elegiac novellas that trace the stories of two women who have led very different lives. He title of William Trevor's latest book has a nicely deceptive simplicity.
"Reading Turgenev" and "My House in Umbria." SeptemTwo Women: One Mad, One Bad, Both Wise By ALIDA BECKER
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