by William Trevor · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141010434
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«The Story of Lucy Gault» is the historical novel by William Trevor, published by Penguin in paperback (240 pages, in English).
In 1921, the Gault family, Protestant and settled in Lahardane (County Cork), must leave their home due to political instability in rural Ireland. Lucy, the daughter, cannot bear the idea of leaving and devises a plan to prevent it; an unforeseen misfortune will mark the family for years.
The novel was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2002 and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award in 2003.
A proposal for readers of literary and historical fiction, particularly those interested in twentieth-century Ireland.
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.
