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Peter Taylor: The Complete Stories: A Library of America Boxed Set
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ISBN10: 1598535412
ISBN13: 9781598535419
Publisher: Library of America
Published: Oct 3 2017
Pages: 1650
Weight: 3.10
Height: 2.70 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781598535419
Publisher: Library of America
Published: Oct 3 2017
Pages: 1650
Weight: 3.10
Height: 2.70 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.
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