by William Trevor · Penguin · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9780141022536
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«The Dressmaker's Child» is a collection of short stories by William Trevor, published by Penguin in paperback (64 pages, in English).
William Trevor brings together three stories here: two chosen by him from earlier collections and a third appearing for the first time in book form. They are works of short fiction focused on characters and situations from everyday life, with a keen eye on human relationships and the nuances of the unspoken.
First edition, in Penguin's Pocket Penguins series; the book was published on 6 May 2005.
For readers of short fiction and Irish narrative; a compact sample of William Trevor's short-story work, with general-level reading.
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.
