Subtle yet powerful, his stories linger with the reader long after the words have been put away. From a chance encounter between two childhood friends to the memories of a newly widowed man to a family grappling with the sale of their ancestral land, Trevor examines with grace and skill the tenuous bonds of our relationships, the strengths that hold us together, and the truths that threaten to separate us. Trevor's precise and unflinching insights into the hearts and lives of ordinary people are evidenced once again in this stunning new collection. Trevor's last collection, "A Bit on the Side," was named a "New York Times" Notable Book and hailed as one of the Best Books of the Year by papers from coast to coast, including "The Washington Post" and "San Francisco Chronicle." And his earlier collection, "After Rain," published in 1996, was named one of the eight best books of the year by "The New York Times." The publication of a new book by William Trevor is a great literary event. But the title story, Cheating at Canasta, is set in Venice, specifically, Harry’s Bar, where a man, who is losing his wife to dementia, returns to the place they both adored and finds his time there disrupted by a younger couple quarrelling on a nearby table. A note for book clubs: Many book clubs are hesitant to discuss short story collections, and understandably so it can be difficult to know where to start with so many plotlines, characters and competing ideas but choosing just two or three stories from a collection to discuss makes for great conversation and Cheating at Canasta would be. Scuffing on both covers with small bumped lower edge at spine.
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