After Rain: Stories by William Trevor

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here . After Rain - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumbs the depths of the human heart. Here we encounter a blind piano tuner whose wonderful memories of his first wife are cruelly distorted by his Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here . After Rain - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumbs the depths of the human heart. Here we encounter a blind piano tuner whose wonderful memories of his first wife are cruelly distorted by his second; a woman in a difficult marriage who must choose between her indignant husband and her closest friend; two children, survivors of divorce, who mimic their parents melodramas; and a heartbroken woman traveling alone in Italy who experiences an epiphany while studying a forgotten artists Annunciation. Trevor is, in his own words, a storyteller. My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so. Conscious or not, he touches us in ways that few writers even dare to try.