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The Hill Bachelors
bookshelves: radio-4, play-dramatisation, summer-2013, published-2000, shortstory-shortstories-novellas
Recommended for: BBC radio listeners
Read on June 03, 2013
BBC BLURB: Paulie has returned home for the funeral of his father. A man he barely knew. The remote farm is on a boreen, high up in the hills, a place he hasn't been back to in many years. As his brothers and sisters arrive home for the funeral, the question on everyone's mind is - 'What will happen to Ma?' She cannot manage by herself and Paulie knows what they are inadvertently saying - he is the only one who is unmarried, doesn't have children - it is up to him to move back and help his mother.
Caught between desire and circumstance, Paulie, must choose between marrying his long-time love, Patsy Finnucane, or caring for his widowed mother and resigning himself to the isolated life of a hill bachelor.
'There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world' The Wall Street Journal
William Trevor has long been hailed as the master in short story telling. He has published nearly 40 novels, short story collections, plays, and collections of non-fiction. He has won three Whitbread Awards, a PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award, and been nominated five times for the Booker Prize, most recently for his novel Love and Summer (2009). In 1977 Trevor was awarded an honorary CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for his services to literature.
Written by William Trevor
Directed by Gemma McMullan
Listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/...
William Trevor is an author who has quietly crept up on me over the years and it appears I am softly comfortable under the spell of his nib.
3* Love and Summer
3* The Collected Stories
WL After Rain
3* Cheating at Canasta
3* A Bit on the Side
4* Death in Summer
3* My House in Umbria
3* Reading Turgenev
3* Angels at the Ritz
4* The Hill Bachelors
3* The Distant Past and Other Stories
Caught between desire and circumstance, Paulie, must choose between marrying his long-time love, Patsy Finnucane, or caring for his widowed mother and resigning himself to the isolated life of a hill bachelor.
'There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world' The Wall Street Journal
William Trevor has long been hailed as the master in short story telling. He has published nearly 40 novels, short story collections, plays, and collections of non-fiction. He has won three Whitbread Awards, a PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award, and been nominated five times for the Booker Prize, most recently for his novel Love and Summer (2009). In 1977 Trevor was awarded an honorary CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for his services to literature.
Written by William Trevor
Directed by Gemma McMullan
Listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/...
William Trevor is an author who has quietly crept up on me over the years and it appears I am softly comfortable under the spell of his nib.
3* Love and Summer
3* The Collected Stories
WL After Rain
3* Cheating at Canasta
3* A Bit on the Side
4* Death in Summer
3* My House in Umbria
3* Reading Turgenev
3* Angels at the Ritz
4* The Hill Bachelors
3* The Distant Past and Other Stories
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