by William Trevor · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780349133898
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«A Standard of Behaviour» is the novel by Irish writer William Trevor, published by Penguin in paperback (122 pages, in English).
The action takes place during a party in which high-society guests end up revealing their true personalities. With mordant satire, Trevor addresses hypocrisy, moral decay and the complexities of human relationships in a privileged setting, with a critical eye on elite standards.
The work was originally published in 1958; this 1982 edition belongs to the Abacus Books collection.
For readers of literary and contemporary fiction interested in social satire and portrayals of high-society life.
William Trevor Cox was an Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language. Trevor won the Whitbread Prize three times and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize, the last for his novel Love and Summer (2009), which was also shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2011. His name was also mentioned in relation to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
