Another is their small victories can turn out to be more meaningful than their original impulses.īut lest I give the impression his works are all rather dullĬharacter studies that are morally good for you to read, please note That are too large to be contained in their straitened situations.Ĭommon theme for Trevor is his characters' acceptance or rejection of His tales just aboutīurst at the seams with personalities who seem ordinary at first butĭevelop into fascinating, even perverse, characters with dreams or fears
Lonely seniors, store clerks, runaways, con artists-but also priests,Ĭountry gentry, police officers and landlords. Mainly from the humbleįringes of British and Irish society-farmers, beggars, prostitutes, In Canada to Morley Callaghan), enhances this softening, letting hisĪnd what a bunch of characters they are. Throwback to many years ago, maybe to Thomas Hardy or E.M. His leisurely, no-nonsense writing style, a
Melding of contemporary, gritty, sometimes grisly, reality with old-fashioned humanism. His stories and novels have this almost unique May seem on the surface-they each have some reason for forgiveness or someĬapacity for redemption. Seeing-however unattractive, stupid or despicable they He loves them not in some naïve, goody-good way, but with an understanding that they are each central in their own stories. The veteran Irish writer loves all his characters. Like onlookers at accidents they often seem to thrive on watching their characters getting flattened by life's injustices, suffering mental anguish or being hurt, even killed.
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