Publisher's Synopsis
In a career spanning over half a century, Peter Taylor explored the dramas of a Tennessee gentry struggling with the loss of the old certainties in an Old South becoming new. A winner of both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Penn/Faulkner Award and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, he was, in the estimation of Anne Tyler, 'the undisputed master of the short-story form'. For his centennial year, Taylor joins fellow twentieth-century masters such as Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor in the Library of America series with an unprecedented 2-volume edition of his complete short fiction.
