Boarding House - William Trevor

The Boarding House By William Trevor - A Darkly Comic Novel By One Of The Worlds Best Writerswilliam Bird Has Always Taken In Boarders Who Are On The Fringes Of Society: The Petty Conman The Immigrant Whos Never Been Able To Fit In The Blustering Officer Who Really Doesnt Know Whats What And The Just Plain Lonely. Hes Built A Unique Place With A Unique Atmosphere. But Then He Realizes Hes Dying And He Decides To Leave The Place To The Two Tenants Likely To Cause The Greatest Amount Of Trouble And The Whole Enterprise Goes Up In Smoke.william Trevors Dark Comedy Reminiscent Of Evelyn Waugh And Muriel Spark Was His Second Novel.'trevor Has The Knack Of Slicing Life So That It Reveals Lower Layers We Have Not Suspected' Daily Mailhe Tells You The Most Outrageous Things In A Most Pleasant Manner Hardly Ever Raising His Voice' Guardianwilliam Trevor Was Born In Mitchelstown County Cork In 1928 And Was Educated At Trinity College Dublin.