Excursions In The Real World: Memoirs
by Trevor, William
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679430296
- ISBN 13
- 9780679430292
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William Trevor was born in Cork in 1928. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and has spent a great part of his life in Ireland. Since his first novel, The Old Boys , was awarded the Hawthorne Prize in 1964, he has received many honours for his work including the Royal Society of Literature Award, the allied Irish Banks Prize for Literature and the Whitbread Prize for fiction. He is a member of the Irish Academy of Letters and he has bee awarded an Honorary CBE. His most recent books are Two Lives and The Collected Stories of William Trevor . Lucy Willis works principally in watercolour an etching and is one of the most versatile of contemporary British artists. Her growing reputation as a portraitist in oils was confirmed in 1992 when she won first prize in the BP National Portrait Gallery Award.
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- Bookseller
- Southampton Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 128260
- Title
- Excursions In The Real World: Memoirs
- Author
- Trevor, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679430296
- ISBN 13
- 9780679430292
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
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