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    The William Trevor Reader: “The Forty-Seventh Saturday”

    by Adam O’Fallon Price Feb 01, 2022 3 minutes

    If I have a general critique of , it’s one that this story elicited with greater force than any I’ve read yet: namely, the surface quality of his characters’ psychologies. In “The Forty-Seventh Saturday,” an unpleasant middle-aged man, Mr. McCarthy, visits Mavie, a young woman half his age, for the 47th installment of their tryst. Characteristically of Trevor characters, they operate on a schedule: between noon and 4 p.m. on Saturdays, when Mavie’s roommate is at work. Trevor, and his creations, are big on routine, on the habitual and habituated—you would

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