![]() ![]() Guilt descends and, his crime undetected, a year later he returns to the Virgin: Her marble face is moist. Spanish pilgrims he’s chauffeuring to visit the Virgin of the Wayside, a statue whose miraculous tears have been debunked, kiss in his backseat, unaware of the thud as he hits a small girl on the dark road. In “The Dressmaker’s Child,” Cahal the mechanic lives in a small-town world of Ford Cortinas and WD-40, and yet collides with the uncanny. Yet Trevor gives us an unassailably real contemporary Ireland, quotidian and atmospheric as fog. Another stellar collection from Trevor ( A Bit on the Side: Stories, 2004, etc.).īlarney-free-shorn, too, of much of anything overtly lyrical or political or Catholic Gothic-these aren’t standard-issue Irish tales. ![]()
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