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Family Sins and Other Stories

af William Trevor

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Contains twelve short stories on the complexities of humanity.
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Masterful stories of people, mostly family, treating each other badly, in Ireland and beyond. The title is apt. The stories explore the ways family can damage each other.

A young couple accept the humiliation handed them by an old man they work for in hope of receiving an inheritance. A man feels privileged to marry a woman expecting another's baby. A headmaster's son wants to protect his sisters and family from the opinions and predatory behavior of his schoolmates. A girl is trapped as a maid in a household so her father can buy a field to be handed down to her brother.

Lost and unconsumated love is a theme. "Why did so unsuitably, so cruelly almost, two people love?" Each story is a complete world, often a cruel and disappointing world, in itself. ( )
  Hagelstein | Dec 30, 2022 |
This 1990 collection is mostly rooted in Ireland, and I would say that the better stories are set in rural Ireland, in the relatively impoverished 1940s and 50s. Occasionally Trevor turns his attention to the south of England. When a story is set further afield, in Italy or Switzerland, it invaribly deals with the English abroad.

My favorite was the last story, "Kathleen's Field," a heart-breakingly simple story of poverty set in 1948 rural Ireland.

Trevor's more recent collections of short stories are full of masterpieces. This one seemed to have a few "near misses" and one or two other stories that didn't really come close to hitting their mark. Most of the stories are comfortably "above average," but I don't think this set really represents Trevor at his peak. ( )
1 stem yooperprof | Feb 14, 2012 |
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