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A Summons to Memphis
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Peter Taylor is well-known as a masterful writer of short stories set in the old South; not the well-explored South of explosive passions, but an urban world of faded gentility and empty custom. In his almost Jamesian evocations of the mannered upper classes in his native Tennessee, he neither romanticizes nor reviles, but meticulously observes, revea... »
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The Old Forest and Other Stories
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This collection features 14 stories set in the cities of the Deep South in the 1920s and 30s. The subjects are ordinary people -- families and households of the time -- caught in the extraordinary tensions of everyday life. The prose befits the topics; simple on the surface yet rich and elegant. And just because Peter Taylor, a native Southerner, has c... »
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The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor
"Collected Stories" is a standard name for books that aren't complete - that don't include all of a writer's work. Those are called "The Complete Short S... »
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A Woman of Means: A Novel
I don't have an inkling as to how this tightly-crafted novel, circa 1950, happened to be re-published in 1996 by Piccador, but the discovery thereof is a ... »
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