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    The William Trevor Reader: “The News from Ireland”

    by Adam O’Fallon Price Mar 07, 2023 3 minutes

    “The News From Ireland” is the second novella in  after a stout 25-pager that feels to me just a bit longer than a short story. Or that is to say, it seems to do more things than a short story does or can. Not all of them successfully— “Matilda’s England” I consider to be a small, complete masterpiece; “The News From Ireland” feels more like the prospectus for an actual novel, with a large array of characters whose individual stories are

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