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The Old Forest and Other Stories

Peter Taylor

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#293 of 8,085 books · #151 in Fiction

Won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1986). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

This collection gathers 14 of Taylor's short stories. Set in his native South between the two world wars, these tales of domestic life explore the extraordinary world of manners, expectations and unspoken understandings. They reveal not only Taylor's emotional depth and power of observation but also his understanding of the social and economic peculiarities of the American South in the years before racial integration.

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Publisher
doubleday & company, inc
ISBN-13
9780140089516
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Southern life and cultureFamily and domestic relationshipsSocial class and race in the American South

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