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Last Stories: Kevin Barry, Hermione Lee, Di Speirs & Salley Vickers on William Trevor

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The Importance of the Metaphysical in Joseph's Life

There's a lot of amputated limbs. Do you notice? No. I noticed that because my mother was a double amputee. So I mean I, many a little William Trevor you'll have an amputees. Yes. He's got a sense of truth. You know he's not ordinarily religious. But he has a sense of other dimensions that affect people. His characters are porous. They're very thin skinned. And in his depiction of place actually it can sometimes seem almost surreal. There is a real vividness and an extraordinaires about just stepping out of the concert. To build a place at German. And there's miss, what's the story of

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