The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor

The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor

  • By:Peter Taylor
  • ISBN:0374531846
  • Publication Type: Farrar Straus & Giroux
  • Category: Short Stories
  • Condition:Good
  • No Of Pages:535
  • Specification:pb
  • Release Date:18th Aug 2009
  • Price:Rs 285.00

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. Peter Taylor was�the author of eight short story collections and three novels, including�A Summons to Memphis, for�which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. 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. �[Taylor] comes as close as an American writer can to rivaling Chekhov.��The New York Times�Taylor is a master of the short story form . . . [His is] an extraordinary gift, too often absent in contemporary fiction.��Gail Caldwell, The Boston Sunday Globe��[Taylor] writes prose as clear as a fine pane of glass.��Time��No one writing in English can do more with a short story . . . He is a master.��Geoffrey Wolff, Newsweek��[Taylor] has achieved utter mastery in short fiction.��Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

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