William Trevor has long been hailed as one of the greatest living writers of short story. In this collection
of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, he once again plumbs the depths of the human heart. Here we encounter
a blind piano turner 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's Annunciation.
Table of Contents
1. The Piano Tuner's Wives
2. A Friendship
3. Timothy's Birthday
4. Child's Play
5. A Bit of Business
6. After Rain
7. Widows
8. Gilbert's Mother
9. The Potato Dealer
10. Lost Ground
11. A Day
12. Marrying Damian
