by William Trevor · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140277203
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«Death in Summer» is the literary novel by William Trevor, published by Penguin in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Thaddeus tries to rebuild his life in a country house after the death of his wife, while raising his young daughter; when the mother-in-law moves in to help, an unexpected visit breaks the calm and triggers a tragic outcome.
The novel was originally published in 1998; this Penguin edition dates from 1999. The work was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction.
Suitable for the general public and reading groups; especially for those who enjoy contemporary narrative with elements of psychological mystery.
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.
