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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Add this copy of In the Miro District and Other Stories to cart. $2.99, fair condition, Sold by Websters Bookstore Cafe rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from State College, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1977 by Knopf.
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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. Price clipped. 204 p. Audience: General/trade. Book Condition: Very good. DJ Condition: Very good, some chips, price clipped. Clean pages. Tight binding.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Knopf, New York, 1977. First edition. First printing. A near fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A copy with clean text, in a price-clipped jacket (not book club edition). Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Jacket has light fading on spine and a short closed tear. Prior owner's neat signature on front endpaper. Slight spine slant. Fiction-T.
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As New in As New dust jacket. 0394410610. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is in fine, As New, gift-giving condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. 8vo. 204 pp. In protective Mylar.
