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The William Trevor Reader: An Introduction

Welcome to the Reader! Here’s the plan: once a week, every week, I will read one story from William Trevor’s and write about it. There are 85 stories in this volume, comprising 1,261 total pages, so this will be no small undertaking. I will read and write about them in sequence, beginning with “A Meeting in Middle Age” and ending with “Kathleen’s Field.” This project—generously assuming completion—should take around a year and a half, with the final entry

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