num_pages: 256
description: William Trevor's  Last Stories  is forthcoming from Viking.His first collection since the bestselling After Rain , William Trevor's The Hill Bachelors is a heartbreaking book about men and women and their missed four people live in a suburban house, frozen in a conspiracy of silence that prevents love's consummation; a nine-year-old dreams that a part in a movie will heal her fragmented family life; a brother and sister forge a new life amid the chaos of Ireland after the Rebellion; and in the title story, a young man chooses between his longtime love and a life of solitude on the family farm. These beautifully rendered tales reveal Trevor's compassion for the human condition and confirm once again his position as one of the premier writers of the short story.
language: English
title: The Hill Bachelors
titlecomplete: The Hill Bachelors
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Ireland, European Literature, Irish Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Short Stories, Novels
ratings_count: 573
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Irish Times Irish Literature Prize, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award
category: short stories
publisher: Penguin Books