RIP William Trevor
Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2016 10:42 am
William Trevor, Writer Who Evoked the Struggles of Ordinary Life, Is Dead at 88
By WILLIAM GRIMESNOV. 21, 2016
William Trevor in 1993. Credit Rex Features, via Associated Press
William Trevor, whose mournful, sometimes darkly funny short stories and novels about the small struggles of unremarkable people placed him in the company of masters like V. S. Pritchett, W. Somerset Maugham and Chekhov, died on Sunday in Somerset, England. He was 88.
His death was confirmed by his son Patrick Cox.
Mr. Trevor, who was Irish by birth and upbringing but a longtime resident of Britain, placed his fiction squarely in the middle of ordinary life. His plots often unfolded in Irish or English villages whose inhabitants, most of them hanging on to the bottom rung of the lower middle class, waged unequal battle with capricious fate.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/books ... d=76748118
