Peter Taylor: Complete Stories 1938-1959 (LOA #298) Peter Taylor: Complete Stories 1938-1959 (LOA #298)
Library of America Peter Taylor Edition

Peter Taylor: Complete Stories 1938-1959 (LOA #298‪)‬

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Publisher Description

For the first time, the complete short stories of the master chronicler of tradition and transformation in the twentieth-century American South

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.

This first volume 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.

“I think the real accomplishment of Peter Taylor may be to have conjured the great slow shapes of epic and tragedy, so they can be glimpsed in the little segment of an ordinary life, restoring to our myths their most unsettling implications.” —Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Gilead

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2017
3 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
725
Pages
PUBLISHER
Library of America
SELLER
Random House, LLC
SIZE
2
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