A Bit on the Side

Download or read book A Bit on the Side written by William Trevor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking. In these twelve stories, a waiter divulges a shocking life of crime to his ex-wife; a woman repeats the story of her parents’ unstable marriage after a horrible tragedy; a schoolgirl regrets gossiping about the cuckolded man who tutors her; and, in the volume’s title story, a middle-aged accountant offers his reasons for ending a love affair. At the heart of this stunning collection is Trevor’s characteristic tenderness and unflinching eye for both the humanizing and dehumanizing aspects of modern urban and rural life.