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After Rain
  • Published: 5 November 1997
  • ISBN: 9780141932415
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

After Rain




A remarkable collection of twelve new stories,mostly set in Ireland,which was greeted with universal acclamation when published in hardcover in 1996. The title story is a small, sad masterpiece, about a woman holidaying alone in an Italian hotel.

"A dazzling collection of short stories" SUNDAY TIMES

  • Published: 5 November 1997
  • ISBN: 9780141932415
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

About the author

William Trevor

William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland in 1928. He is the author of fourteen much-lauded novels: he won the Whitbread Prize three times and was short-listed for the Booker Prize four times, most recently with The Story of Lucy Gault in 2002. Trevor was widely recognized to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the English language. In 1999, William Trevor received the prestigious David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement, and in 2002 he was awarded an honorary knighthood for his services to literature. He died in 2016.

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