| The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor Contributor(s): Taylor, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374531846 ISBN-13: 9780374531843 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: Described by Anne Tyler as "the undisputed master of the short story form," Peter Taylor imbued his stories with a powerful sense of the conflicts between the old rural society and the increasingly urbanized South. Ranging in subject from the story of the exposure of a respected doctor's infidelity by the family's longtime cook to the tale of elderly siblings whose party for young people exposes the town's class divisions, the stories often explore family dynamics within the larger society of the South. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2008944181 |
| Series: FSG Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.4" W x 8.5" (1.45 lbs) 554 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Described by Anne Tyler as the undisputed master of the short story form, Peter Taylor imbued his stories with a powerful sense of the conflicts between the old rural society and the increasingly urbanized South. Ranging in subject from the story of the exposure of a respected doctor's infidelity by the family's longtime cook to the tale of elderly siblings whose party for young people exposes the town's class divisions, the stories often explore family dynamics within the larger society of the South. |
Contributor Bio(s): Taylor, Peter: - Peter Taylor, the author of eight story collections, including The Old Forest and Other Stories (Picador) and three novels, including A Summons to Memphis, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and A Woman of Means (Picador), died in 1994. A Tennessee native, he had lived in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his wife, poet Eleanor Ross Taylor. |