- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (26 Jan 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140240292
- ISBN-13: 978-0140240290
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.6 x 1.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,530,013 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A modern master of the short story brings his precise and compassionate observations to bear on his own life, in a book of recollections that is at once funny, poignant, and revealing. As William Trevor records his migration from the shabby-genteel precincts of Ireland's Protestant middle-class to the sleek vulgarity of London in the swinging sixties, from Cork and Dublin to New York and Isfahan, he yields luminous portraits of the people whose paths crossed his. There is the roaring schoolmaster with the passion for spelling bees; the glamorous emigre with a weakness for faithless poets. There are Trevor's parents, marooned in a marriage that grew more arid by the year. In "Excursions in the Real World," Trevor turns memory into a fabulous balancing act between truthfulness and art.
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The Autobiography of a Contemporary Master
4 April 2000
Format:Paperback
Admirers of Trevor's masterly fiction will enjoy these incisive, witty, heartbreaking essays revisiting his youth and early adulthood. The short piece about his parents is probably the most moving thing he's ever written. Most writers use autobiography to settle scores; Trevor uses it to give shape to the life of memory--a shape, in its own way, just as artful and just as true as the shape he gives to the life of his fiction.
Excursions Into the Real World
10 Dec 2011
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Anything this guy writes is 5 star. This "real world" is the author's world. This is autobiographical his life vs. fiction. Worth the reading, for his talent and his honesty.
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