ENGLISH

Two Lives

By William Trevor

Book information

Publisher
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Year
1992
ISBN
0140153721, 9780140153729
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1916255 bytes)
Pages
384\0
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Two beautiful, memorable novels in one volume, both focussing on women who retreat into their imaginations until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurred. In "Reading Turgenev", which was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, an Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man. But she finds unusual solace - in secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian novels...The second story, "My House in Umbria" tells how romantic novelist Emily Delahunty helps the survivors of a bomb attack on a train and invents colourful pasts for her convalescent patients.

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