The William Trevor Reader: “The Printmaker”
“Does it happen […] in other people’s lives that a single event influences all subsequent time?” So ponders the protagonist of “The Printmaker,” a 40-something British woman—a professional photographer and printmaker—who lives alone. She never got over the unconsummated romance (more of a mutual crush, really) that she experienced at 17, when she lived for a summer with the Langevin family in France. Through business connections, Charlotte’s father arranged for his
