Excursions in the Real World: Memoirs

by William Trevor

Book Overview

These autobiographical tales are about people and places, personal fascinations and enthusiasms, that have remained snagged in William Trevor's memory over the years. He writes here of childhood and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140240292
• ISBN13: 9780140240290
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

The Autobiography of a Contemporary Master

Admirers of Trevor's masterly fiction will enjoy these incisive, witty, heartbreaking essays revisiting his youth and early adulthood. The short piece about his parents is probably the most moving thing he's ever written. Most writers use autobiography to settle scores; Trevor uses it to give shape to the life of memory--a shape, in its own way, just as artful and just as true as the shape he gives to the life of his fiction.