In a village in Ireland is Felicia's pregnant in her first night of love, the man, Johnny Lysaght, but disappears in England. He is said to work in a lawn mower factory. The pregnant Felicia travels to England to Johnny track down, but this trip does not lead to objective, a journey through the bars and homeless milieu is from industrial plants and also a sacred mission sect touched by Felicia 'journey. Rather than take on Johnny, Felicia makes the acquaintance of the canteen owner Mr. Hilditch, who is gaining more influence on Felicia's' finding, it is possible tie to deeper ties with Felicia. With Mr. Hilditch enters the evil of the novel, first on light feet barely perceptible, and then, this is the sophistication of the novel, it is becoming increasingly perilous for Felicia, although the reader still does not know what intends these mid-forties with a young woman . He sneaks into her life , and the reader wonders at some point, hopefully nothing bad happened Felicia. Trevor succeeds in an outstanding manner to leave the reader guessing. It made allusions, the reader is lured on false trails. You fear to the end, after all, Mr. Hilditch has been with several women a bad game driven.
This type of the uncanny in literature is a bit like some novels by Amélie Nothomb ("Beauty of evil," "The Professor"), and I favor, but more for Trevor's novel. Amélie Nothomb has good, even exciting, but I have a feeling, a unique reading ranges. In William Trevor's different. Here is one that works really well crafted. Felicia's journey from when he says he throws a flashback and we learn of her history from her father, who is complaining about Johnny Lysaght, because of this, he believes he knows, secretly went to the British army, etc. It is typical Trevor, that he deals with the novels in the military conflict between Ireland and the British. Which Irish father would have been as a British soldier to son. I like good background descriptions. In this book, my descriptions of the world's homeless have very much.
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decline in their hiding people from the street into a sleep that is induced by alcohol and are startled by despair, into dreams that bring back the life that was once theirs. The signs still begging beside him and the cigarette butts from the sidewalk at hand are they there enough in the bottle in order to facilitate the moment of awakening. is hungry and homeless their appeal on a piece of cardboard scrawled carelessly, one has copied from the other: only the money counts.
One may think of Elke Heidenreich's former TV show "Get", what you like, but it was William Trevor's short stories "Death of the professor" were discussed. So I came across this author and do not regret it.
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