"A husband sits in Harry's Bar in Venice, thinking of his wife - lost to him now - whose plea has brought him back to one of their favorite haunts. On another table, a young couple quarrel. 'Cheating at Canasta' is the title story of William Trevor's new collection, his first since the acclaimed A Bit on the Side (2004), and its themes of missed opportunities, the inevitability of change and the powerful but fragmentary quality of our memories are entirely characteristic. In 'Old Flame' a wife stands by as her husband lunches with his mistress for the last time; in 'Folie a Deux' a diner in Paris catches a glimpse of a schoolboy friend with whom he had perpetrated, many years ago, an act of almost unwitting cruelty; and in 'Men of Ireland' a down and out returns from England to torment, and test, an old priest."--BOOK JACKET