William Trevor, 88, writer who evoked the struggles of ordinary life

William Trevor, 88, writer who evoked the struggles of ordinary life William Trevor, 88, writer who evoked the struggles of ordinary life William Trevor, whose forlorn, here and there hazily clever short stories and books about the little battles of unremarkable individuals set him in the organization of experts like V.S. Pritchett, W. Somerset Maugham and Chekhov, passed on Sunday. He was 88. His distributer, Penguin Random House Ireland, affirmed that he had kicked the bucket yet did not state where. Mr. Trevor, who was Irish by birth and childhood yet a long-lasting inhabitant of Britain, put his fiction soundly amidst standard life. His plots frequently unfurled in Irish or English towns whose occupants, a large portion of them clinging to the base rung of the lower white collar class, pursued unequal fight with whimsical destiny. In "The Ballroom of Romance," one of his most acclaimed stories, a young lady administering to her debilitated father searches for adoration in a move lobby yet settles, after a long time, for a couple of tanked kisses from a neighborhood lone wolf.