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  <title><![CDATA[The Old Forest and Other Stories]]></title>
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  <default_description>This collection features 14 stories set in the cities of the Deep South in the 1920s and 30s. The subjects are ordinary people -- families and households of the time -- caught in the extraordinary tensions of everyday life. The prose befits the topics; simple on the surface yet rich and elegant. And just because Peter Taylor, a native Southerner, has captured a time and a region in this refreshing book, doesn't mean the work will appeal only to those interested in &quot;Southern&quot; writers. This 1986 PEN/Faulkner Award winner is rich with the kind of material that will appeal to anyone interested in good storytelling.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1986</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to admit that I feel like a heel giving this book 2 stars and now writing these comments to explain why.  Because I met Peter Taylor in graduate school, just a year or so before his death, and he was one of the few professional writers we met who was not a complete jerk.  He was kindly, gener...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29411340">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent stories although I don't think I quite made it through all of them.  It sounds odd but I remember thinking that I wasn't quite worthy of these stories -- that they were so well written that maybe I shouldn't be reading them -- something akin to not using the good furniture unless company i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74400349">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Taylor is the master of the unreliable narrator.  At first, his stories seem like nothing more than &quot;stories of manners&quot; of aristocratic and polite Southern society from a vanished time, but then as the ironic narration begins to reveal itself, they become harrowing portraits of families h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25982564">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you've never had the pleasure of reading Peter Taylor's stories, you're in for a real treat. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Old Forest&quot; itself is pretty good, but not fantastic.  I'd still like to read the rest of the collection, though, since I find the old Memphis setting and society to be interesting.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I continue to adore the title story. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[like a 1930's Memphis Updike, rich but mired in one context.  Started (and stayed) slow, but it grew on me as a fairly masterful working of short-story form.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel that I now understand a bit more about the relationship between Southerners and their household help during the early part of the century. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Peter Taylor is by far my favorite short story writer.  ]]></body>
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