After Rain

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 213. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket cover detail of Fra Bartolommeo's and Mariotto Albertinelli's The Annunciation (1498), in the Duomo, Volterra.

An immaculate copy.

A collection of twelve short stories. Title story originally published in The New Yorker, Mar. 27, 1995. American Library Association Notable Book. Chosen by the editors of "The New York Times Book Review" as one of the eight best books of 1996, and by the Boston Globe as one of the six best books of fiction for the same year. Trevor is, in his own words, "a storyteller. My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so." Winner of the David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement. Knighted for his services to literature in 2002. "There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world." –Wall Street Journal