- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (6 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 014118664X
- ISBN-13: 978-0141186641
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,351,615 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A small, pretty seaside town is harshly exposed by a young boy's curiosity. His prurient interest, oddly motivated, leaves few people unaffected - and the consequence cannot be ignored. This is a remarkable account of the evil that can lurk in the most harmless setting and for readers now it has the startling ability to bring back to life the now very strange seeming English world of thirty years ago.
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William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, in 1928. In 1946 he went to Trinity College, Dublin. All his major novels as well as his Collected Stories are published by Penguin. His most recent book, the story collection The Hill Bachelors, was published in paperback in July 2001.
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Dynmouth nestled on the Dorset coast, gathered about what was once the single source of its prosperity, a small fishing harbour. Read the first page
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
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A Classic,
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This review is from: The Children of Dynmouth (Hardcover)
I read this some time ago but it has resonated ever since. It follows a seemingly mundane existence in a typical sea side resort projected through the eyes of a curious young boy whose pointed questions open up long buried secrets. Trevor was a sculpture before becoming a writer and this book is a masterclass in delicately sculpted fine prose. It won a much deserved Whitbread prize in 76. I cannot recommend this book enough. If you read it in the 70¡¯s read it again.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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'You're out with a blonde',
By D. J. H. Thorn "davethorn13" (Hull, UK) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Children Of Dynmouth (Penguin Decades) (Paperback)
Having read Trevor's collected short stories plus 'Felicia's Journey' and one other novel of his, the title of which escapes me, I greatly looked forward to tackling this. I wasn't disappointed. The author can boast an impressive trail of frightening characters across his work and the teenager Timothy Gedge is as chilling as any of them. What is so macabre about this story is that Gedge, though a prodigious blackmailer, sets his ransom at nothing more than a few props for an act in a local talent contest he intends to enter. His knowledge has been shamelessly gained by spying on the inhabitants of the small town in which he lives, knowledge which threatens to uproot the lives of everyone whose path he crosses. His cheeky, fruit gum-chewing persistence gives him credibility. Everyone has known someone outwardly resembling him, though his ability to bare the most unthinkable truths doesn't bear thinking about. I don't believe I've read anything better by Trevor.
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This review is from: The Children of Dynmouth (Mass Market Paperback)
brilliant book just so clever but quite disturbing as well - looking into the psychology of a misfit boy in a small town, quite amusing
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