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Love and summer

In 1950s Ireland, an orphan finds herself living in a small town and entered into a bleak future with the man she married. Quite simply, another life does not seem possible. But then she encounters a photographer on the verge of leaving Ireland and all the ravages of the past seem poised to give way to the great love threatening to consume them both.

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  • "Love and summer"@it
  • "Love and summer"@pl

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  • "In 1950s Ireland, an orphan finds herself living in a small town and entered into a bleak future with the man she married. Quite simply, another life does not seem possible. But then she encounters a photographer on the verge of leaving Ireland and all the ravages of the past seem poised to give way to the great love threatening to consume them both."@en
  • "Living an unfulfilling existence at the side of a tragic husband, shy orphan Ellie Dillahan begins an affair that forces her to choose between an uncertain future with the man she loves and the desolate life she has built for herself."
  • "Living an unfulfilling existence at the side of a tragic husband, shy orphan Ellie Dillahan begins an affair that forces her to choose between an uncertain future with the man she loves and the desolate life she has built for herself."@en
  • "Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009."@en
  • ""The masterful William Trevor returns witha novel that evokes the passions and frustrations teeming beneath the quiet exterior of a small Irish town and its unforgetable inhabitants." -- from publisher."@en
  • "Love and Summer, the latest item from William Trevor's venerable suitcase, is a thrilling work of art." -The New York Times Book Review In spare, exquisite prose, master storyteller William Trevor presents a haunting love story about the choices of the heart, and the passions and frustrations of three lives during one long summer. Ellie is a shy orphan girl from the hill country, married to a man whose life has been blighted by an unspeakable tragedy. She lives a quiet life in the Irish village of Rathmoye, until she meets Florian Kilderry, a young photographer preparing to leave Ireland and his past forever. The chance intersection of these two lost souls sets in motion a poignant love affair that requires Ellie to make an impossible choice."@en
  • "It's summer, and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn't go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger begins photographing the mourners at Mrs. Connulty's funeral. Florian Kilderry couldn't know that the Connultys were said to own half the town. But Miss Connulty resolves to keep an eye on Florian . and she becomes a witness to the ensuing events."@en
  • "The story of a frustrated romance between a young, married ex-convent girl and a visiting stranger in a small Irish town over one long summer."
  • "In 1950s Ireland, an orphan named Ellie Dillahan finds herself living in a small town-- and entered into a bleak future with the man she married. When Ellie encounters a photographer on the verge of leaving Ireland, it seems she might escape from her painful situation, but this new love threatens to consume them both."
  • "It is summer and a stranger has come to quiet Rathmoye. He is noticed by Ellie, the young convent girl, who is married to Dillahan, a farmer still mourning his first wife. Over the long and warm days, Ellie and the stranger form an illicit attachment. And those in the town can only watch, as passion, love and fate take their inevitable course."@en
  • "It is summer and a stranger has come to quiet Rathmoye. He is noticed by Ellie, the young convent girl, who is married to Dillahan, a farmer still mourning his first wife. Over the long and warm days, Ellie and the stranger form an illicit attachment. And those in the town can only watch, holding their tongues, as passion, love and fate take their inevitable course."
  • "A photographer attracts the attention of a woman when he takes pictures of her mother's funeral, and she watches as he starts an affair with a local farmer's wife."
  • "Een jongeman keert in de jaren zestig van de 20e eeuw terug naar Rathmoye om het vervallen ouderlijk huis te verkopen en wordt verliefd op de echtgenote van een stugge boer."
  • "It's summer in Rathmoye and when a stranger appears photographing the mourners at Mrs Connulty's funeral it doesn't go unnoticed. Florian Kilderry couldn't know that the Connultys are said to own half the town: he has come to Rathmoye to photograph the remains of its burnt-out cinema. But Mrs Connulty's daughter resolves to keep an eye on Florian Kilderry, and witnesses the events that follow ... Out in the country, Dillahan, a farmer and a decent man, was accidentally responsible for the deaths of his wife and baby and had later married Ellie. But Ellie falls in love with Florian, although he's planning to leave Ireland and begin anew after what he considers to be his failed life ... and a dangerously reckless attachment develops between them."

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  • "Translations"
  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Littérature américaine"
  • "Romance fiction"@en
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Irské romány (anglicky)"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Powieść irlandzka w języku angielskim"@pl
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Roman irlandais de langue anglaise"
  • "Irish fiction (English)"

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  • "Love and Summer"
  • "爱情与夏天"
  • "Cet été-là roman"
  • "Liebe und Sommer : Roman"
  • "L'amore, un'estate"@it
  • "L'amore, un'estate"
  • "Lato miłości"@pl
  • "Lato miłości"
  • "Love and summer"
  • "Love and summer"@en
  • "Love and summer a novel"@en
  • "Láska a léto"
  • "Verano y amor"
  • "Verano y amor"@es
  • "Love and summer : a novel"@en
  • "Aşk ve yaz"
  • "Tình phai nắng hạ"
  • "Ai qing yu xia tian"
  • "Cet été-là : roman"
  • "Liebe und Sommer Roman"
  • "Cet été-là"

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