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Peter Taylor: the Complete Stories : A Library of America Boxed Set by Peter Taylor (2017, Hardcover)
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Here too are all five of Taylor’s remarkable prose poems, stories in free verse that demonstrate that great fiction is, at its highest pitch, a line-by-line, image-by-image high-wire act.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLibrary of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-101598535412
ISBN-139781598535419
eBay Product ID (ePID)237876310
Product Key Features
Book TitlePeter Taylor: the Complete Stories : a Library of America Boxed Set
Number of Pages1650 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2017
TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorPeter Taylor
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height2.8 in
Item Weight49.5 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2016-959018
Reviews"The undisputed master of the short-story form." --Anne Tyler "Only Eudora Welty has acomplished a body of fiction so rich, durable, and accessible as Taylor's." --Jonathan Yardley
Dewey Edition23
Number of Volumes2 vols.
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisIn a career spanning over half a century, Peter Taylor explored the dramas of a Tennessee gentry struggling with the loss of the old certainties in an Old South becoming new. A winner of both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Penn/Faulkner Award and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, he was, in the estimation of Anne Tyler, 'the undisputed master of the short-story form'. For his centennial year, Taylor joins fellow twentieth-century masters such as Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor in the Library of America series with an unprecedented 2-volume edition of his complete short fiction., For the first time, the complete stories of the master chronicler of tradition and transformation in the twentieth-century South are available in a deluxe two-volume Library of America boxed set. Born and raised in Tennessee, Peter Taylor was the great chronicler of the American Upper South, capturing its gossip and secrets, its divided loyalties and morally complicated legacies in tales of pure-distilled brilliance. Now, for his centennial year, the Library of America and acclaimed short story writer Ann Beattie present an unprecedented two-volume edition of Taylor's complete short fiction, all fifty-nine of the stories published in his lifetime in the order in which they were composed. Volume one offers twenty-nine early masterpieces, including such classics as "A Spinster's Tale," "What You Hear from 'Em?," "Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time" and "Miss Leonora When Last Seen." As a special feature, an appendix in the first volume gathers three stories Taylor published as an undergraduate that show the early emergence of his singular style and sensibility. Volume two presents thirty stories including many of his most ambitious works, among them "Dean of Men," a monologue delivered by a middle-aged father to his long-haired son about the limits of idealism; "In the Miro District," a parable of the Old South's enduring persistence in the New; and "The Old Forest," one of Taylor's most celebrated works, the story of a young man who jeopardizes his impending marriage by consorting with a girl deemed beneath his station. Here too are all five of Taylor's remarkable prose poems, stories in free verse that demonstrate that great fiction is, at its highest pitch, a line-by-line, image-by-image high-wire act. Two of the stories in this volume, "A Cheerful Disposition" and "The Megalopolitans," are collected here for the first time. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
LC Classification NumberPS3539.A9633
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