by William Trevor · Viking (Penguin) · tapa dura · ISBN 9780670917266
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«Cheating at Canasta» is William Trevor's collection of short stories, published by Viking (Penguin) in hardback, 231 pages, in English.
The title story shows a man at Harry's Bar in Venice remembering his wife, whose memory was fading day by day; at another table, a young couple argue. Throughout the pages, Trevor portrays fragile relationships, secrets, and characters marked by loss, chance, and the difficulty of holding on to the past.
The volume brings together twelve stories; «Folie à Deux» won the 2008 O. Henry Award and «Men of Ireland» was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award.
For readers of short stories and contemporary Irish fiction, as well as for those already familiar with William Trevor's work.
William Trevor Cox was an Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language. Trevor won the Whitbread Prize three times and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize, the last for his novel Love and Summer (2009), which was also shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2011. His name was also mentioned in relation to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
