In Family Sins, William Trevor brings his tremendous empathy and keen eye for detail to these gemlike tales of country life in Ireland. Here are twelve portraits of everyday folded in crisis-haunted by memory, battered by circumstance. The middle-aged women in “The Printmaker” and “August Saturday” are consumed by fleeting, long-ago affairs; the young boy in “Children of the Headmaster” is terrified by the disappointments and awful mysteries of impending adulthood; and “Events at Drimaghleen” hinges on a gruesome murder-suicide.
Whether grim, poignant, or shot through with flashes of subtle humour, Family Sins displays the deft characterization and precise, involving prose that readers the world over have come to expect from William Trevor.
Praise for William Trevor:
“To be a master of the short story and a master of the novel is a distinction achieved by precious few writers, but such a master is William Trevor.?--The Washington Post Book World
“William Trevor may well be the best writer of short fiction in the English language.” --The London Free Press
“Trevor is a master storyteller, a skilled spinner of affecting, compassionate tales.?--The Edmonton Journal

WILLIAM TREVOR was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, in 1928. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and has spent a great part of his life in Ireland. Since his first novel, The Old Boys, was awarded the Hawthorne Prize in 1964, he has received many honours for his work, including the Royal Society of Literature Award, the allied Irish Banks Prize for Literature, and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. His novel, The Story of Lucy Gault, was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread Fiction Prize. Trevor is a member of the Irish Academy of Letters. He has been awarded an Honorary CBE, was made a Companion of Literature, and was knighted for his services to literature. In 1999, Felicia’s Journey was made into an award-winning film by Atom Egoyan. His most recent books are A Bit on the Side and Cheating at Canastas.

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