{"id":23562,"date":"2018-02-19T11:47:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T15:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=23562"},"modified":"2018-02-19T11:51:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T15:51:39","slug":"william-trevor-mrs-crasthorpe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2018\/02\/19\/william-trevor-mrs-crasthorpe\/","title":{"rendered":"William Trevor: “Mrs. Crasthorpe”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Mrs. Crasthorpe”<\/strong><\/span>
\nby William Trevor
\nfrom the February 26, 2018 issue of\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"[fusion_dropcap boxed=”no” boxed_radius=”” class=”” id=”” color=”#003366″]”M[\/fusion_dropcap]rs. Crasthorpe” is probably the last “new” William Trevor story we’ll get. From what I hear, when he died it was on his desk and essentially finished. I cannot wait to read and reread it! The opening paragraph has a lot of promise!<\/p>\n

On the short walk from the churchyard to her car, Mrs. Crasthorpe was aware of a profound humiliation. A lone mourner at her husband\u2019s funeral, she had sensed it first in the modest country church he had insisted upon for what he had called his obsequies. A woman cleric unknown to Mrs. Crasthorpe had conducted a bleak service, had said the necessary words in an accent that appalled Mrs. Crasthorpe, and then had scuttled off without so much as a glance in Mrs. Crasthorpe\u2019s direction. Two men were waiting, leaning on their shovels in the nearby graveyard, and within minutes had returned the clay to where they had dug it from, making a little mound, the coffin gone forever and with it Arthur, all of it a mockery. She was wrong, Mrs. Crasthorpe knew, to blame Arthur for the arrangements he\u2019d put in hand before he went, but she\u2019d become used to blaming him in his lifetime and couldn\u2019t help doing so still.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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