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The 2011 Award

 

Trevor

 

Love and Summer

by William Trevor

 

 

 

Nominated by:

  • Limerick City Library, Ireland
  • Dublin City Public Libraries, Ireland
  • Miami-Dade Public Library System, USA.
  • Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, USA.

Publisher of Nominated Edition:

Viking, UK

Viking, USA

 
The complete A-Z listing of nominated authors
ABOUT THE BOOK

 

In spare, exquisite prose, master storyteller William Trevor presents a haunting love story about the choices of the heart, and the passions and frustrations of three lives during one long summer. Ellie is a shy orphan girl from the hill country, married to a man whose life has been blighted by an unspeakable tragedy. She lives a quiet life in the Irish village of Rathmoye, until she meets Florian Kilderry, a young photographer preparing to leave Ireland and his past forever. The chance intersection of these two lost souls sets in motion a poignant love affair that requires Ellie to make an impossible choice. 

(From Publisher).
 
 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

William Trevor is the author of twenty-nine books, including Felicia’s Journey, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was made into a motion picture. In 1996 he was the recipient of the Lannan Award for Fiction. In 2001, he won the Irish Times Literature Prize for fiction. Two of his books were chosen by The New York Times as best books of the year, and his short stories appear regularly in the New Yorker. In 1997, he was named Honorary Commander of the British Empire. He lives in Devon, England.

LIBRARIANS' COMMENTS

A beautifully written, poignant novel about life, love, family, frustrations and passions in small town Ireland. The gloomy dark focus on loneliness, pain and loss are treated in an unusually uplifting manner.

Trevor chronicles the colorful lives of Rathmoye, Ireland, as protagonist Ellie Dillahan seeks a reckless romance with Folrian Kilderry, despite her marriage to a middle-aged farmer. Love and Summer was nominated for the 2009 Man Booker prize.

The book tells the story of the brief clandestine friendship and romance between a young photographer and a young farm wife, in the small fictional town of Rathmoye, Ireland, in the 1950,s. with its understated nuanced prose this fulfilling and satisfying novel conveys a quiet and intimate sense of the lives of the people around them.

 

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