![]() ![]() ![]() The story of Lucy Gault begins with a gunshot. It is perhaps the saddest story he has ever told, although even here redemption is possible-as in all his best work, quotidian acts of grace, and the language with which he describes them, trump fate and misfortune and loss. ![]() Heartache, regret, the stunned accommodations we make to fate and to history, and also our patient pursuit of redemption have been at the center of much of Trevor's fiction, and in The Story of Lucy Gault, his thirteenth novel, he brings these themes to a nearly unbearable pitch. A wise reader, in other words, will hold this beautiful and devastating tale at a kind of emotional arm's length. A wise reader will approach William Trevor's new novel as an allegory, or a political treatise, or perhaps a meditation on the role of the exile in the history of the Irish people during the twentieth century. ![]()
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