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The Story of Lucy Gault: Summary and book reviews of The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor, plus links to an excerpt from The Story of Lucy Gault and a biography of William Trevor.
The Story of Lucy Gault
by
William Trevor
Hardcover: Sep 2002,
228 pages.
Paperback: Sep 2003,
240 pages.
William Trevor has long been acknowledged as one of the most extraordinary writers of our time, with a particular insight into the workings of the human heart. In The Story of Lucy Gault, he has surpassed himself.
The Gault family leads a life of privilege in early 1920s Ireland, but the threat of arson leads nine-year-old Lucy's parents to leave Ireland for England, her mother's home. Lucy cannot bear the thought of leaving Lahardane, their country house with its beautiful land and nearby beach, and a dog she has befriended. On the day before they are due to leave, Lucy runs away, hoping to convince her parents to stay, but instead she sets off a series of tragic misunderstandings that affect all of the inhabitants of Lahardane and the perpetrators of the failed arson attack for the rest of their lives.
In this brilliant, profound and moving story of love, guilt and forgiveness, Trevor has written a novel that stands alongside the best literature in the English language.
Book Reviews
Library Journal - Diana McRae
Trevor's smooth, spare prose captures the quirky workings of the heart, and compassion for the human condition mitigates the harsh blows that fate often deals his characters.
Booklist - Brad Hooper
This beautiful, haunting story of love and redemption rings with the resonance of a legend.
Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Trevor's deeply poetic sense of the Irish character and countryside, his magical evocation of the passing of time, have never been more eloquent.
Kirkus Reviews
Starred Review. A beautiful story of history, grief, and forgiveness.
New York Sun
Mr. Trevor's pure observation and transparent prose should shame other writers.
The Washington Post Book World
The Story of Lucy Gault.....once read, will never be forgotten.
Harper's Magazine
Beautifully drawn and revelatory.
The New Yorker
The tragedies that befall the Gaults are difficult to bear, because no one is clearly accountable. As the author delicately probes the nature of personal and political responsibility, the reader squirms with discomfort, longing for a scapegoat and yet aware of the implications of that longing.
Atlantic Monthly - Alice McDermott
Beautiful and devastating.... Trevor once again captured the terrible beauty of Ireland's fate, and the fate of us all—at the mercy of history, circumstance, and the vicissitudes of time.
The Boston Globe
One of the finest writers now at work in our language…No writer practicing the form today moves with nimbler assurance than Trevor across such an impressive gamut of social types and emotional connections.
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