A Bit on the Side

A collection of twelve short stories by William Trevor, each a quiet study of moral ambiguity, regret, and the weight of past choices. The stories range from a priest's crisis of faith and a woman's affair to a man's obsession with a statue, and are told with the understated, elegiac prose that defined Trevor's career. The moods are consistently melancholic and tense, and the stories are told at a slow, deliberate pace.