Love and Summer
By William Trevor
(Viking Adult, Hardcover, 9780670021239, 224pp.)
Publication Date: September 2009
Categories: Literary
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Selected by Indie Booksellers for the October 2009 Indie Next ListIt's summer and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn't go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger appears on his bicycle and begins photographing the mourners at Mrs. Connulty's funeral. Florian Kilderry couldn't know that the Connultys are said to own half the town: he has only come to Rathmoye to photograph the scorched remains of its burnt- out cinema.
A few miles out in the country, Dillahan, a farmer and a decent man, has married again: Ellie is the young convent girl who came to work for him when he was widowed. Ellie leads a quiet, routine life, often alone while Dillahan runs the farm.
Florian is planning to leave Ireland and start over. Ellie is settled in her new role as Dillahan's wife. But Florian's visit to Rathmoye introduces him to Ellie, and a dangerously reckless attachment begins.
In a characteristically masterly way Trevor evokes the passions and frustrations felt by Ellie and Florian, and by the people of a small Irish town during one long summer.
Born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, in 1928, William Trevor has published fourteen novels and twelve collections of short stories. He is a member of the Irish Academy of Letters and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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