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How the second wife deals with that realization, and how her husband reacted, make a story of language and the generosity of human nature. in another story, a mother sitting with a stranger at her dining Perhaps that is part of the answer to why the Irish are wonâ€" dertul writers: they like story. Everything else that happens onto the page is there to build the story. Perhaps it is that firm underâ€" ying structure which makes these pieces memorable. There are ways to hold them in the mind. Trevor writes about ordinary people in Ireland, in Dublin or in On the back cover of the book, William Trevor is quoted: "My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but | do not consistently set out to do so: I am a story teller " Certainly, Trevor‘s stories linger long after they are read. Each one is gently but unrelentingly written, pressing quietly toward understanding. Each one follows a nddle, building toward insight: sometimes a surprise for characâ€" ters in the story, but also for the reader. Rain. Trevor has published many books, one of which won a Whitbread Award in 1976. I had not read his work before. After Rain is a collection of short stories, each one a pleasure in its own right. There is something special about a collection of fine short stories. Each story can be read and savored, given breathing room. They open out into wide e Following my usual way of choosing books, I turned up a lovely looking book a while ago by William Trevor, called After What, | would like to know, makes the Irish such wonderful St. Jude‘s Tutoring Schools provide many different "clubs" designed to give students an educational advantage in their home schools. 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These students and their parents recognize that a good learner must have first, an excellent foundation in the basic academic skills of reading, spelling, mathematics and writing; second, an established work ethic of homework completion, note making skills, project and assignment completion and effective study skills; and finally, these students must have an excellent teacher available to provide the help, guidance and instruction necessary to achieve and compete to the best of their ability. The first St. Jude‘s Tutoring School was established in 1990 as an extension of the full time day program at St. Jude‘s Private Academic School in Waterloo, Ontario. As the tutoring schools grow and expand into other cities in Ontairo and across Canada, St. Jude‘s Private Academic School will continue to be the training centre for all the certified, teacherâ€"owner /operators of the tutoring schools. _ _ St. Jude‘s is Jutoring School ?% it Judith Miller is an associate professor of English at Renison College at University of Waterloo. So . .. why are the Irish such wonderful writers? in part, at least, because they have stories to tell, they know about riddles and about language. They are part of a culture where silence and language complement one another, where it is sometimes hard to know where one ends and another begins, so stories echo for a long time in that middle place, where they meet. Occasionally, the atmosphere of a story is like Munro‘s. A famâ€" ily can have secrets, not spoken of, even to one another, in the Gothic way of Munro‘s families. In this culture, as in Munro‘s, it is important to know how to read the silences: Looking at him across the open grave, Hazel suddenly knew. In ignorance she had greeted him an hour ago in the farmâ€" house; they had stood together in the church; she had watched while he stepped forward to bear the coffin. Now, in the bleak churchyard, those images were illuminated difâ€" ferently. The shame had been exorcised, silence silently agreed upon. These are a proud people, and they will go to great lengths to regain "lost ground." JUONMU) HIHET _ it is not possible to watch these characters achieving some measure of selfâ€"knowledge l ”“HH' without acquiring a little along the way: a | sort of vicarious getting to know oneself. At times, these stories reminded me of Alice Munro‘s writing. At least on the surâ€" face, they seem much simpler than Munro‘s stories. 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