Reading Turgenev
by William Trevor
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William Trevor (1928), autor de novelas tan memorables como El estallido cientifico, Marionetas o Noches en el Alexandra es una de las figuras seneras de la literatura irlandesa contemporanea. En Leyendo a Turgueniev nos relata la historia de la joven Mary Louise Dallon, una muchacha ingenua y atractiva que esta deseando escapar de la granja en la que vive con su familia; pero el matrimonio no resulta ser una solucion adecuada, y menos cuando el marido prefiere la bebida al sexo. Una breve show more relacion sentimental es todo lo que ella se atreve ya a esperar, pero sabe que, para sobrevivir, el amor verdadero es tambien una cuestion muy seria. show lessTags
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Mary Louise marries an older man to escape the boredom of her rural lifestyle. To escape his ineptitude as a husband and the hatefulness of his sisters with whom they share a business and household, Mary Louise becomes increasingly enmeshed in a fantasy world built upon her childhood affections for a sickly cousin. Trevor employs two alternating chronologies, one describing her increasing isolation and the other her return to a changed world. This novel was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and the volume containing this novel and My House in Umbria, entitled Two Lives, was named to the New York Times Editor's Choice list in 1991. I rate it at 8 out of 10 stars.
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TML 200 Best Books 1950-1999
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William Trevor Cox was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland on May 24, 1928. He received a degree in history from Trinity College in 1950. Before becoming a full-time author in 1965, he worked as a sculptor, a teacher, and a copywriter at an advertising agency. He exhibited his sculptures in Dublin and England and was joint winner of the show more International Year of the Political Prisoner art competition in 1952. His first novel, A Standard of Behaviour, was published in 1958. His other novels include Other People's Worlds, Nights at the Alexandra, The Silence in the Garden, The Story of Lucy Gault, My House in Umbria, and Love and Summer. He won the Hawthornden Prize in 1964 for The Old Boys, the Whitbread Award in 1976 for The Children of Dynmouth, the Whitbread Award in 1983 for Fools of Fortune, and the Whitbread Award in 1994 for Felicia's Journey. His short story collections include The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and Other Stories, The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories, Beyond the Pale, A Bit on the Side, Cheating at Canasta, and The Mark-2 Wife. The Hill Bachelors received the 2001 Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award for Short Stories. He received the Allied Irish Banks' Prize in 1976, The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in 1992, the David Cohen British Literature Prize in 1999, and the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award in Irish Literature in 2008. In 1977, he was awarded an honorary CBE in recognition of his services to literature. He died on November 20, 2016 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Reading Turgenev
- Original title
- Reading Turgenev
- Original publication date
- 1991
- Dedication
- For Jane
- Blurbers
- Brookner, Anita; Glendinning, Victoria
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