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  <title><![CDATA[The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor]]></title>
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  <default_description>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 South--a region and a time he knew at first-hand.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.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1969</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I think of Peter Taylor, I think of the closer to his story Dean of Men: &quot;It is a strange world, Jack, in which an old man must tell a young man this.&quot; <br/><br/>In the story, of course, the point is that it is the old man who has become the stranger, and in turn Peter Taylor has be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54817804">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Peter Taylor is a master. His prose is clean and beautiful and capable of anything. ]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[short story fans who appreciate Henry James]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Taylor is what they call a writers' writer, and I always feel as if I ought to like him more than I do.  The fact is, I often feel as if there is more to his stories than I understand; it feels as if he is often going over my head.  A blurb on the back compares him to Chekhov, but Henry James is the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13015129">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are very few practitioners of the short story who could match Peter Taylor's unique, formal and precise gems.  I loved these stories.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 27 21:52:59 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Have read about half of this book so far. Wonderful author whom  I had never heard of until I picked up this book. Stories are wonderfully complex and often evoke feeling of having read a novel after reading one of his short stories.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Remarkable observer of mid-century mid-south culture, its characters and changes. Astute observer. Gets how much to tell and what moment to choose to tell it.]]></body>
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