Philip Hensher

Last Stories

Far from being restrained, his best stories are rooted in alarming forms of behaviour — including drug rapes and wife-swapping parties

issue 19 May 2018

A very prolific and long-standing writer of short stories reveals himself. William Trevor, who died in 2016, owned up to 133 short stories in the two-volume 2009
Collected Stories, and here are ten final ones, written in his last seven years. One shy of a gross, he might have had a character put it.

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