About the Author:
Peter Taylor, the author of eight story collections, including The Old Forest and Other Stories (Picador) and three novels, including, A Summons to Memphis, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and A Woman of Means (Picador), died in 1994. A Tennessee native, he had lived in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his wife, poet Eleanor Ross Taylor.
Review:
"One of the major works of our literature."—Joyce Carol Oates
"He come as close as an American writer can to rivaling Chekhov."—The New York Times
"[Taylor] writes prose as clear as a fine pane of glass."—Time
"[Taylor] has achieved utter mastery in short fiction."—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
"No one writing in English can do more with a short story."—Geoffrey Wolff, Newsweek
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