The hill bachelors
By: William Trevor.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Description: "The Hill Bachelors contains a dozen new stories, set mostly but not entirely in Ireland.".

"In 'Three People', an ageing father waits for the proposal for his daughter that will never come from the man who once told a lie to save her; in 'Against the Odds', a con-woman who has plied her trade across the entire Six Counties fixes this time on a widower in a small inland town; and in the poignant title-story, the youngest son returns for his father's funeral to the family hill farm to find it has become his unwelcome inheritance.".

"William Trevor writes about the lonely and the sad, about those who have something to hide and those who barely have control over their lives."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Three People
pagenum: 1; title: Of the Cloth
pagenum: 21; title: Good News
pagenum: 40; title: The Mourning
pagenum: 63; title: A Friend in the Trade
pagenum: 89; title: Low Sunday, 1950
pagenum: 107; title: Le Visiteur
pagenum: 122; title: The Virgin's Gift
pagenum: 139; title: Death of a Professor
pagenum: 155; title: Against the Odds
pagenum: 180; title: The Telephone Game
pagenum: 207; title: The Hill Bachelors
pagenum: 224