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Description for Two Lives
Paperback. First edition, dustjacket
Two beautiful, memorable novels in one volume, both focussing on women who retreat into their imaginations until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurred. In `Reading Turgenev', which was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, an Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man. But she finds unusual solace - in secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian novels ... The second story, `My House in Umbria' tells how romantic novelist Emily Delahunty helps the survivors of a bomb ... Read more
Two beautiful, memorable novels in one volume, both focussing on women who retreat into their imaginations until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurred. In `Reading Turgenev', which was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, an Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man. But she finds unusual solace - in secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian novels ... The second story, `My House in Umbria' tells how romantic novelist Emily Delahunty helps the survivors of a bomb ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140153729
SKU
KTK0094547
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About William Trevor
William Trevor was born in County Cork in 1928 and spent his childhood in various provincial Irish towns. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and then to England in 1953. He now lives in Devon. In 1977 William Trevor received an honorary CBE in recognition of his services to literature, and in 1998 he was awarded the prestigious David Cohen ... Read more
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