William Trevor is one of the renowned figures in contemporary literature,
described as �the greatest living writer of short stories in the English
language� by the New Yorker and acclaimed for his haunting and profound
insights into the human heart. Here is the ultimate collection of his short
fiction, with dozens of tales spanning his career and ranging from the
moving to the macabre, the humorous to the haunting. From the penetrating
�Memories of Youghal� to the bittersweet �Bodily Secrets� and the elegiac
�Two More Gallants�, here are masterpieces of insight, depth, drama and
humanity, acutely rendered by a modern master.