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Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria Book

The two lives of the title are brilliantly illuminated in a pair of short novels, Reading Turgenev and My House in Umbria, that exemplify the biting, tragicomic work of this Anglo-Irish master. The first novel is a sorrowful love story, the second a sort of thriller. Each of Trevor's two heroines is trapped in her life, one in Ireland and the other in Italy, and each has some experience of the transformational power of literature, a subject the author knows at first hand. Nobody can break your heart with such laconic precision. To be read with handkerchief in hand.Read More

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  • Amazon

    Includes two novels 'Reading Turgenev' and 'My House in Umbria'. In 'Reading Turgenev', 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.

  • Foyles

    Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria - two novels by William Trevor'Evocative and haunting. Trevor writes like an angel, but is determined to wring your heart' Daily Mail'Marvellous, superb. As rich and moving as anything I have read in years. When I reach the end . . . I wanted to start right again at the beginning' GuardianIn Reading Turgenev an Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man, but finds release through secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian novels.My House in Umbria tells of Emily Delahunty, a writer of romantic novels, who helps the survivors of a bomb attack on a train to convalesce, inventing colourful pasts for her patients.Two novels, two women who retreat further into the realm of the imagination until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurred . . .'One of the most beautiful and memorable things Trevor has written' Independent on SundayReading Turgenev was shortlisted for the Booker Prize

  • Penguin

    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', an Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man.

  • ASDA

    Includes two novels Reading Turgenev and My House in Umbria. In Reading Turgenev 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.

  • BookDepository

    Two Lives : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780141044613 : 0141044616 : 30 Oct 2013 : An Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man, but finds release through secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian novels.

  • Waterstones

    Includes two novels ''Reading Turgenev'' and ''My House in Umbria''. In ''Reading Turgenev'', 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

  • Blackwell

    An Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man, but finds release through secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian novels. Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria - two novels by William...

  • 0141044616
  • 9780141044613
  • William Trevor
  • 6 May 2010
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 384
  • Re-issue
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