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Peter Taylor

1917–1994
Peter Taylor in 1985. (Doug Griffin/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

A Long Fourth and Other StoriesA Woman of MeansIn the Miro District and Other StoriesThe Old Forest and Other StoriesA Summons to Memphis • “Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time” • “A Woman of Means” • “Miss Leonora When Last Seen”

“I think the real accomplishment of Peter Taylor may be to have conjured the great slow shapes of epic and tragedy, so they can be glimpsed in the little segment of an ordinary life, restoring to our myths their most unsettling implications.”—Marilynne Robinson

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