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Author | : Peter Taylor |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999-06-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375701176 |
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One of the most celebrated novels of its time, the Pulitzer Prize winner A Summons to Memphis introduces the Carver family, natives of Nashville, residents, with the exception of Phillip, of Memphis, Tennessee. During the twilight of a Sunday afternoon in March, New York book editor Phillip Carver receives an urgent phone call from each of his older, unmarried sisters. They plead with Phillip to help avert their widower father's impending remarriage to a younger woman. Hesitant to get embroiled in a family drama, he reluctantly agrees to go back south, only to discover the true motivation behing his sisters' concern. While there, Phillip is forced to confront his domineering siblings, a controlling patriarch, and flood of memories from this troubled past. Peter Taylor is one of the masters of Southern literature, whose work stands in the company of Eudora Walty, James Agee, and Walker Percy. In A Summons to Memphis, he composed a richly evocative story of revenge, resolution, and redemption, and gave us a classic work of American literature.
Author | : Peter Taylor |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780606218931 |
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When Phillip Carver is asked by his sisters to help avert their widower father's impending marriage to a younger woman, he is forced to confront his domineering siblings, a controlling patriarch, and a flood of memories from his deeply troubled past.
Author | : Peter Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780345346605 |
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The unmarried, middle-aged children of a charming elderly widower attempt to foil his plans to remarry.
Author | : Peter Taylor |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1996-08-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312146955 |
Download The Old Forest and Other Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fourteen tales of domestic life in the south during the thirties and forties.
Author | : Peter Taylor |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1995-07-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312135218 |
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Accompanying his grandfather's body on the train ride to its final resting place, young Nathan Longford meets his enigmatic and eccentric cousin Aubrey, an encounter that is to haunt Nathan throughtout his lifetime.
Author | : Alison Lurie |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2013-06-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1480422495 |
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This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel follows two American academics in London—a young man and a middle-aged woman—as they each fall into unexpected romances. In her early fifties, Vinnie Miner is the sort of woman no one ever notices, despite her career as an Ivy League professor. She doubts she could get a man’s attention if she waved a brightly colored object in front of him. And though she loves her work, her specialty—children’s folk rhymes—earns little respect from her fellow scholars. Then, alone on a flight to London for a research trip, she sits next to a man she would never have viewed as a potential romantic partner. In a Western-cut suit and a rawhide tie, he is a sanitary engineer from Tulsa, Oklahoma, on a group tour. He’s the very opposite of her type, but before Vinnie knows it, she’s spending more and more time with him. Also in London is Vinnie’s colleague, a young, handsome English professor whose marriage and self-esteem are both on the rocks. But Fred Turner is also about to find consolation—in the arms of the most beautiful actress in England. Stylish and highborn, she introduces Fred to a glamorous, yet eccentric, London scene that he never expected to encounter. The course of these two relationships makes up the story of Foreign Affairs—a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award as well as a Pulitzer Prize winner, and an entertaining, poignant tale from the author of The War Between the Tates and The Last Resort, “one of this country’s most able and witty novelists” (The New York Times). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alison Lurie including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
Author | : Walter Burkert |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2007-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674023994 |
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At the distant beginning of Western civilization, according to European tradition, Greece stands as an insular, isolated, near-miracle of burgeoning culture. This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange--Babylonian Nineveh, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Persepolis--to situate classical Greece in its proper historical place, at the Western margin of a more comprehensive Near Eastern-Aegean cultural community that emerged in the Bronze Age and expanded westward in the first millennium B.C. In concise and inviting fashion, Walter Burkert lays out the essential evidence for this ongoing reinterpretation of Greek culture. In particular, he points to the critical role of the development of writing in the ancient Near East, from the achievement of cuneiform in the Bronze Age to the rise of the alphabet after 1000 B.C. From the invention and diffusion of alphabetic writing, a series of cultural encounters between "Oriental" and Greek followed. Burkert details how the Assyrian influences of Phoenician and Anatolian intermediaries, the emerging fascination with Egypt, and the Persian conquests in Ionia make themselves felt in the poetry of Homer and his gods, in the mythic foundations of Greek cults, and in the first steps toward philosophy. A journey through the fluid borderlines of the Near East and Europe, with new and shifting perspectives on the cultural exchanges these produced, this book offers a clear view of the multicultural field upon which the Greek heritage that formed Western civilization first appeared.
Author | : Peter Taylor |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2002-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780807128435 |
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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.
Author | : Graham Swift |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780330518222 |
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Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of a simple if increasingly bizarre day's outing, Last Orders is Graham Swift's most poignant exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives.Celebrating 40 years of outstanding international writing, this is one of the essential Picador novels reissued in a beautiful new series style.
Author | : Peter Taylor |
Publisher | : Turtleback |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1987-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780785798446 |
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A middle-aged man living in New York returns home to Memphis to deal with a family crisis.