The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor

by Peter Taylor

• ISBN13: 9780312420208
• ISBN10: 031242020X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-11-03
• Publisher: Picador

Summary

In this collection of short fiction, one of the heralded masters of the form examines the lives of men and women in the 1930s and '40s Southa region and a time he knew well. Living in a well-ordered world that's beginning to lose its equilibrium, Taylor's fascinating characters struggle to come to terms with the constricting circumstances into which they were born. Delicately interweaving the joys and pains of these families, Peter Taylor goes beyond regionalism to the simple truths recognizable to people everywhere.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Dean of Men	3	(36)
First Heat	39	(11)
Reservations	50	(31)
The Other Times	81	(28)
At The Drugstore	109	(32)
A Spinster's Tale	141	(26)
The Fancy Woman	167	(32)
Their Losses	199	(17)
Two Pilgrims	216	(16)
What You Hear from 'Em?	232	(20)
A Wife of Nashville	252	(29)
Cookie	281	(10)
Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time	291	(35)
1939	326	(34)
There	360	(30)
The Elect	390	(17)
Guests	407	(31)
Heads of Houses	438	(33)
Mrs. Billingsby's Wine	471	(13)
Je Suis Perdu	484	(18)
Miss Leonora When Last Seen	502