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CHEATING AT CANASTA IBD

PENGUIN
12 / 2016
9780141032450
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Sinopsis

Cheating at Canasta - an outstanding collection of stories by the master storyteller William Trevor?There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world? Wall Street Journal'No matter what ? Julia had said aware then of what was coming ?let?s always play cards.? And they did, for even with her memory gone a little more of it each day - her children taken her house her flowerbeds belongings clothes - their games in the communal drawing room were a reality her affliction allowed.?A husband sits in Harry?s Bar in Venice thinking of his wife - lost to him now - whose plea has brought him back to one of their favourite haunts. On another table a young couple quarrel. ?Cheating at Canasta? is the title story of William Trevor?s collection his first since the highly acclaimed A Bit on the Side and its themes of missed opportunities the inevitability of change and the powerful but fragmentary quality of our memories are entirely characteristic of his unparalleled oeuvre.