This collection of four prose and four intimately told verse stories was first published in 1977, and the following year Peter Taylor was given the Gold Medal Award for the short story by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Set mostly in Nashville and Memphis amid Taylor's fictional genteel Tennessee society, these tales belie serene manners and lovely neighborhoods with undercurrents of irony, violence, disgrace, sexual transgressions, and generational divide. Often shadowing male despair in the modern ...
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This collection of four prose and four intimately told verse stories was first published in 1977, and the following year Peter Taylor was given the Gold Medal Award for the short story by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Set mostly in Nashville and Memphis amid Taylor's fictional genteel Tennessee society, these tales belie serene manners and lovely neighborhoods with undercurrents of irony, violence, disgrace, sexual transgressions, and generational divide. Often shadowing male despair in the modern world, they describe the power of unleashed passion once the restraint of custom has given way.
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None. Very Good Indeed in Very Good Indeed jacket. The first UK edition of this collection of short stories from Peter Taylor. Including 'The Captain's Son', 'The Throughway', and 'Daphne's Lover'. Matthew Hillsman Taylor, known professionally as Peter Taylor, was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Born and raised in Tennessee and St. Louis, Missouri, he wrote frequently about the urban South in his stories and novels. In a black cloth binding with original unwrapped dustwrapper. Externally, generally smart. A few lights marks and some light bumping to the boards. Dustwrapper is smart, though with a few marks and some age-toning to the rear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. 204 p. Audience: General/trade. Book Condition: Very good. DJ Condition: Very good, some chips, price clipped. Clean pages. Tight binding.
