![]() ![]() ![]() three houses, Danielstown, Castle Trent, Mount Isabel, occurred in the same night. "The death," Elizabeth Bowen wrote in The Last September (1929), "execution rather – of. It opens in 1921, during the civil war, a time when the Irish big house was most pervasively under threat. The Story of Lucy Gault, Trevor's striking and resonant new novel, treats conditions in the country as the conduit of a domestic tragedy. ![]() His masterly story, "The News from Ireland", has the weight of historical misdeeds crying out for redress, even if redress in the form of inertia – letting events run their course and the big house disintegrate. The rancour of hot-headed insurgents is opposed to "Big House" sangfroid, and all the unspoken accommodations that underlie this central schism. In his novels and stories, William Trevor has often explored the ownership of land and property in Ireland. ![]()
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