![]() In ''Broken Homes,'' the quintessential Trevor story (from the collection ''Lovers of Their Times''), an elderly woman who lives through memories of her sons lost in war allows teenagers in an antipoverty project to demolish her house because she fears being thought senile and taken to a home by social workers. The heroes of Trevor`s tragedies and tragi-comedies survive by clinging to nostalgia and a mysterious sense of honor. ![]() ![]() Pritchett and Graham Greene as one of the most meticulous craftsmen in contemporary fiction. ![]() Not an innovator, he has been admired by such connoisseurs as V.S. Since the 1950s, in 18 books of fiction, Trevor has written about lonely, ordinary people whose lives are disrupted by a person or event. Although they are each completely self-contained narratives, both are about bereaved, danagerously isolated women, and share a common theme: the ways that the written word can send light into a loveless world. ![]() The latest work by Anglo-Irish writer William Trevor is really two novels under one cover. ![]()
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