This collection of four prose and four intimately told verse stories was first published in 1977, and the following year Peter Taylor was given the Gold Medal Award for the short story by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Set mostly in Nashville and Memphis amid Taylor's fictional genteel Tennessee society, these tales belie serene manners and lovely neighborhoods with undercurrents of irony, violence, disgrace, sexual transgressions, and generational divide. Often shadowing male despair in the modern ...
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This collection of four prose and four intimately told verse stories was first published in 1977, and the following year Peter Taylor was given the Gold Medal Award for the short story by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Set mostly in Nashville and Memphis amid Taylor's fictional genteel Tennessee society, these tales belie serene manners and lovely neighborhoods with undercurrents of irony, violence, disgrace, sexual transgressions, and generational divide. Often shadowing male despair in the modern world, they describe the power of unleashed passion once the restraint of custom has given way.
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First edition, first printing; 204 pp., HARDCOVER (same isbn), near fine in a near fine dust jacket. -If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. jacket has wear at edges and corners, flaps faded, front flap creased, back of jacket faded, front flap clipped; copy has remainder mark on lower text block. 204 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book Wear at First edition, first printing, hardcover. Black cloth with gilt titles on spine. 204 pages. Very good in a very good dust jacket with wear at the edges and tanning to rear panel and edges of foldovers. Mylar cover on jacket. A collection of eight stories by a master storyteller.
