The William Trevor Reader: “The Third Party”
by Adam O’Fallon Price
Jun 27, 2023
3 minutes
“The Third Party” is one of my favorites in the , a story that has stuck with me ever since I first read it perhaps 15 years ago. The set-up is simple: two men, strangers to each other, meet in a Dublin bar. We quickly learn that the big man, Boland, is there to meet his wife’s lover, the smaller Lairdman. Annabella, Boland’s wife, suggested the meeting in hopes it would bring Boland around to the reality of her long infidelity and plans to leave him. Lairdman wants to move
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