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- Publisher: Penguin (1987)
- ASIN: B002PITTFW
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Another Beautiful Trevor Novel,
By Amanda Kaiser (Calgary, AB Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fools of Fortune (Mass Market Paperback)
What can I say? It's William Trevor's prose about love, politics and patriotism. I recommend this book to everyone with a heart beating in their chest. In comparison to his other novels, I find that this book captures the innocence of youth and the loss of innocence that war and times of trouble can bring.
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a sorrowful and poignant story, yet maintains to thrill me,
By Rhythmgirl (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fools Of Fortune (Mass Market Paperback)
A few years have passed since I last read Trevor's novels and hardly could I remember how great he is and his fictions are. I have just finished reading this novel and have come to conclude that all of Trevor's novels should not be missed. Setting against the historical Anglo-Irish complex relationships, the novel tells a sorrowful and poignant love story that spans three generations. Trevor's use of language is subtle, delicate, and controlled and is a first-rate writing. The fact that I'm unfamiliar with the Anglo-Irish history might have undermined my appreciation and comprehension (in a certain way) of this novel, nonetheless, this is a great book and should be recommended to those who love reading.
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The Anglo-Irish Fatality,
This review is from: Fools Of Fortune (Mass Market Paperback)
Murder begets murder begets murder begets . . . madness. Enacting personally the larger Anglo-Irish tragedy, a family experiences, and inflicts, murder, leading ultimately to the insanity of the latest-born of the clan. Aeschylus would have understood, though his Orestes ultimately escaped the demons of his past. A gripping piece of fiction that is at the same time a history of Irish-English relations "writ small."
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