And in The Story of Lucy Gault, Trevor lives up to, perhaps even surpasses, that reputation in a novel that explores the tragic consequences for one family of Ireland's deep-seated political strife. The Story of Lucy Gault is set in provincial Ireland in the early s at the height of civil turmoil and anti-English violence. Everard Gault, a retired Anglo-Irish army captain married to an Englishwoman, shoots and . · Reading group: The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor. Group member Trevor suggested this novel which begins in when the head of an Anglo-Irish household shoots at and wounds a potential arsonist, after which he and his wife decide out of fear to leave their County Cork home with their child, eight-year-old www.doorway.ru: Elizabeth Baines. · The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor pp, Viking, £ "The story of" is a telling phrase for the title of this gravely beautiful, subtle and haunting Irish www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins.
The Story of Lucy Gault. by William Trevor. 1. The Story of Lucy Gault is as much about what doesn't happen, or what almost happens, as what does. Lahardane is almost set afire, Lucy comes close to marrying Ralph, Everard writes letters to Ireland but does not send them. What other instances reveal the significance of things not happening? And in The Story of Lucy Gault, Trevor lives up to, perhaps even surpasses, that reputation in a novel that explores the tragic consequences for one family of Ireland's deep-seated political strife. The Story of Lucy Gault is set in provincial Ireland in the early s at the height of civil turmoil and anti-English violence. The Story of Lucy Gault William Trevor Limited preview - The Story of Lucy Gault, My House in Umbria, and Love and Summer. He won the Hawthornden Prize in for The Old Boys, the Whitbread Award in for The Children of Dynmouth, the Whitbread Award in for Fools of Fortune, and the Whitbread Award in for Felicia's.
The Story of Lucy Gault is set in provincial Ireland in the early s at the height of civil turmoil and anti-English violence. Everard Gault, a retired Anglo-Irish army captain married to an Englishwoman, shoots and wounds one of the boys who has come in the night to set their house afire. Reading group: The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor. Group member Trevor suggested this novel which begins in when the head of an Anglo-Irish household shoots at and wounds a potential arsonist, after which he and his wife decide out of fear to leave their County Cork home with their child, eight-year-old Lucy. Given the title of William Trevor’s novel The Story of Lucy Gault, it’s hardly a spoiler to reveal that she has – miraculously – survived. By that time, Gault and Heloise have gone to pursue a life of continental – not England after all - wandering, and despite attempts by local solicitor Mr Sullivan to find them, they are vanished without trace.
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