A Terrible Beauty
October 21, 2002 · Magazine, Books and Arts
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor Viking, 288 pp., $24.95 WILLIAM TREVOR'S latest novel is more than a tale of colonialism and dispossession. Spanning some seventy years, from the old Ireland of the 1920s to the new Ireland of the 1990s, "The Story of Lucy Gault" begins when Lucy is "still…