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Oct 1, 1983 · Again, as in many of his recent short stories, Trevor devotes this immaculate new novel to the insidious legacy, the spreading stain, of random acts of violence—specifically those rooted in Ireland's continuing battleground. The most richly kind and gentle of people—like the mill-owning Quintons of Kilneagh—can become the fools of fortune in the wake of violence, as recalled by William ...
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His novels include The Old Boys, which won the Hawthornden Prize in 1964; The Children of Dynmouth, which won the Whitbread Award in 1976; Fools of Fortune, which won the Whitbread Award in 1983; The Silence in the Garden, which won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award; and Felicia's Journey, which won both the Whitbread Book of the Year ...
Fools of Fortune by William Trevor - a classic early novel from one of the world's greatest writers. Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the Year. Murder and revenge during the Irish Civil War. The Quintons have lived in the old house in Cork for hundreds of years. Though Anglo-Irish Protestant, they sympathize with the cause of ...
Fools of Fortune by William Trevor - a classic early novel from one of the world's greatest writers. Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the Year. Murder and revenge during the Irish Civil War. The Quintons have lived in the old house in Cork for hundreds of years. Though Anglo-Irish Protestant, they sympathize with the cause of ...
Sep 16, 2013 · Fools of fortune by William Trevor. Publication date 2006 Topics Family -- Ireland -- Fiction Publisher Penguin Books Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled
"Fools of Fortune" tells the story of a child whose parents are murdered during in a conflict with the British army in Ireland and his home is inflamed. The movie shows his loneliness and misfortunes while he is growing, but the plot is a little simple, the rhythm is slow and it doesn't get to be entertaining.
