Southern Literary Journal
"Robinson shows through sound survey and analysis how Taylor's entire oeuvre is a piece artistically and themetically."
Southern Literary Journal
"Robinson shows through sound survey and analysis how Taylor's entire oeuvre is of a piece artistically."
World of Relations: The Achievement of Peter Taylor FROM THE PUBLISHER
Peter Taylor secured a national following through his long relationship with the New Yorker and his widely read volumes from the 1980s, The Old Forest and Other Stories and A Summons to Memphis. The Pulitzer Prize- and PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author's portrayals of the battles of strong-willed fathers and mothers with their equally strong-willed sons lie at the center of his acclaimed fiction. David Robinson presents Taylor as a writer deeply concerned with the interworkings of family relationships. He argues that Taylor's key theme is the contest of the individual for maturity and balance within the nurturing but confining ties of the family. This struggle, costly in emotional terms, is often thwarted or incomplete. David Robinson offers an important critical assessment of the work of one of the South's greatest writers. It includes the first extensive critical discussion of Taylor's last two works, The Oracle of Stoneleigh Court (1993) and In the Tennessee Country (1994), which Robinson places in the context of Taylor's full career.
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Tolstoy said in : "Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Robinson (English, Oregon State U.) argues that the second half of that proposition is the literary territory of southern writer Taylor. He emphasizes Taylor's concern with family relations and their impact on the emergence of personality as well as their reflection of societal unease in a changing south. Includes critical discussion of Taylor's last two works and . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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