Peter Taylor: The Complete Stories: A Library of America Boxed Set (The Library of America)

Taylor, Peter

ISBN 10: 1598535412 / ISBN 13: 9781598535419

Editore: Library of America, 2017

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Published by Library of America, 2017. Two Volumes: 1938- 1959 and 1960-1992. Boxed set As New. Edited and introduced by Ann Beattie, these volumes bring together for the first time all 59 stories Peter Taylor (1917-1994) published in his lifetime. He was an American novelist, short-story writer and playwright who wrote about the American South. Fine tan linen binding with gilt-bordered red title panel on spine, tan ribbon page marker, sewn binding. Taylor's stories transform the tragedies and triumphs of his mid-century Southerners into timeless, universal fiction, in the manner of Chekhov or Henry James. He writes unflinching about social change in the South, encounters between blacks and whites, white employers and black servants, women and the extreme measures that had to take in male-dominated world, class illusions, the Old South, etc. 1650 pages. 8.25 x 5.25 inches. Library of America, 2017.

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• Titolo: Peter Taylor: The Complete Stories: A Library of America Boxed Set (The Library of America)
• Editore: Library of America
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1598535412
• ISBN 13: 9781598535419
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: As New
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: As New

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sull'autore

Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor (1917-1994) was the author of fifty-nine published stories, several plays, and three novels, including A Summons to Memphis (1986) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning In the Tennessee Country (1994). In 1978 he was awarded the Gold Medal in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1993 the PEN/Malamud Award for his lifetime contribution to the art of the short story.

Ann Beattie, editor, is the author of nine novels and eleven short story collections. She is a recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award, both given in acknowledgment of her lifetime contribution to the art of the story. She is the former Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, where one of her colleagues was Peter Taylor.