01644cam a2200229 4500 1261859011 TxAuBib 000426s2000||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 00032485 9780670893737 alk. paper 0670893730 alk. paper (OCoLC)1764 DLC eng DLC CPP C#P BAKER BTCTA YDXCP OCLCG OQP OCLCQ VUE OCLCO OCLCF TxAuBib Trevor, William, 1928- The hill bachelors / William Trevor. New York : Viking, 2000. 244 p. ; 23 cm. Three people -- Of the cloth -- Good news -- The mourning -- A friend in the trade -- Low Sunday, 1950 -- Le visiteur -- The virgin's gift -- Death of a professor -- Against the odds -- The telephone game -- The hill bachelors. William Trevor has long been hailed as the master of the short story. His new collection, The Hill Bachelors, is an elegant, heartbreaking book about men and women and their missed opportunities. Here we meet four people in a small suburban house, whose lives are frozen in a conspiracy of silence that precludes love's consummation; a nine-year-old who harbors a dream that a movie part will end her fragmented family life; a brother and sister who must forge a new life amid the terrible beauty of Ireland after the Rebellion; and in the title story, a young man who must choose between a life with his longtime love and a life of solitude -- wedded only to the family farm. Ireland Social life and customs Fiction. Short stories.