by William Trevor · SALAMANDRA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478888771
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The Story of Lucy Gault, a novel by the renowned Irish author William Trevor, immerses us in a tale of isolation and family tragedy on the coast of Ireland. The Gault family, consisting of Captain Gault, his wife Heloise, and their daughter Lucy, faces rejection from the local community due to their alleged sympathy towards the English. Amid this growing hostility, the family plans to move to England, but Lucy's disappearance triggers a series of events that will change their lives forever. As the Gaults embark on a journey through Europe to escape their pain, they are unaware that Lucy's fate will become a legend among the inhabitants of the area.
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.
