Southern Lit Master—PETER TAYLOR—Oracle at Stoneleigh Court

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A First Edition, First Printing in HARDCOVER: • “THE ORACLE AT STONELEIGH COURT: Stories” (Alfred A. Knopf, 1993) (Hardcover, First Edition, First Printing) • BY PETER TAYLOR • “The undisputed master of the short-story form. You could give a creative writing class no other text but his stories and that class would could fully educated.”—ANNE TYLER • “The American writer who, more than any other, has achieved utter mastery in short fiction…. He is, in his seventy-sixth year, the best writer we have.” —JONATHAN YARDLEY, WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD • “That THE ORACLE AT STONELEIGH COURT, his latest collection…abounds in ghosts and supernatural influences seems at first a surprise... But these are not ghost stories about floating wraiths and extraneous horrors, [they are] stories written by an old master of subtlety and subtext about the abiding ghosts of the people we came from in both their charming and shameful aspects….” —GAIL GODWIN, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (1993) • “Few writers can make the short story roll over, stand up or speak the way PETER TAYLOR can. There are, quite simply, few tricks his stories can’t do, including the most important—to inspire wonder and also a kind of terror.” —JAY TOLSON, USA TODAY • “I am tempted to say that PETER TAYLOR is the greatest living short story writer, but I shall be prudent and suggest that he is the greatest one writing in English today.” —LINDA KUEHL, SATURDAY REVIEW • “No one writing in English can do more with a short story…. He is a master.” ―GEOFFREY WOLFF, NEWSWEEK • “His is an extraordinary gift, too often absent in contemporary fiction…. TAYLOR is a master of the short story form.” —BOSTON GLOBE • “One of the country’s enduring masters of the form.” —ROBERT PENN WARREN • “Extraordinary talent for the short story.” —WALKER PERCY • “TAYLOR’s stories are beguiling, humorous, enfolding…. You can feel better reading them than you do when you are doing most other things; you want him to go on.” —HARPER’S MAGAZINE • “PETER TAYLOR’s voice—measured, civilized and oddly affecting—continues to make itself heard through the contemporary uproar. Those attuned to his special note prize it highly. It would be almost true to say that no one else writes that way anymore.” —ROBERT TOWERS, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (1985) • “After winning the PULITZER PRIZE in 1987 for his novel A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS, PETER TAYLOR, at 70 years old, was caught up for the first time in his life in a flurry of celebrity that broadened his audience beyond his regular core of NEW YORKER readers and the many poets and writers who had always admired his work…. While the novel…is very fine, it is not one of his masterpieces, which legions of his fans consider to be his story collections….” —ROBB FORMAN DEW, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (2001) • “[TAYLOR] writes prose as clear as a fine pane of glass.” ―TIME MAGAZINE • “His COLLECTED STORIES is one of the major works of our literature.” —JOYCE CAROL OATES • “Has he not had the reputation he’s so long deserved because it takes a while for his subtle, disturbing stories that gestate below the surface to settle in? Was his magic act of now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t a bit too successful, a ruse that ultimately became counterproductive? His proclivity toward selecting narrators who have a cordial, confiding tone was trickery, but may have misled some readers into thinking that he was a nice southern gentleman, indistinguishable from his fictional creations…. TAYLOR is a writer who so loves to keep our senses sharp; our eye is forced to work like a borer bee as it moves closer to the deeper meaning below the intricately contrived surface pattern.” —ANNE BEATTIE, AMERICAN SCHOLAR • “PETER TAYLOR is certainly one of our best short story writers…. MR. TAYLOR writes so simply and powerfully, he seems scarcely to be exercising his craft.” —NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE • “Demonstrably superior work…. An impeccable stylist.” —VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW • “At his late date, it is hardly news that MR. TAYLOR is a master of the short story form.” —WILLIAM DU BOIS, NEW YORK TIMES (1960) • “Does it need to be said that he is one of the most accomplished short-story writers of our time?”—GENE BARO, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (1964) • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “THE ORACLE AT STONELEIGH COURT: Stories” AUTHOR: PETER TAYLOR TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Alfred A. Knopf (New York), 1993 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First Edition.” NOTE: This copy is NOT ex-library NOR a book-club edition. PAGES: 325 ISBN: 0-679-41990-X CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD MINUS. Price (22.50) is unclipped. Top corners are chipped & each has a cut (the longest of which, the one on the front, is half inch); bottom corners & bottom spine tip are bumped—top spine tip is rubbed. Light scratching (from normal handling) on sides—& light creasing. Light wear along edges. There’s a crease running up the entirety of the back inside flap. DJ is also slightly ill-fitting (maybe from another copy?). For all this, DJ is bright & clean. CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD. Book is square. Boards are clean & bright with bumped corners. Spine is tight & uncreased but has a few light smudges & there’s a tiny (closed) cut at the top of the spine; bottom tip is fine. The top text-block edge has hard-to-see foxing (we had to examine it with a magnifying close to make sure), which is restricted to that area (i.e., does not affect the interior); other edges are fine. Pages are pointedly bright & clean—with no writing, no underlining, no highlighting, no tears/rips, no staining, no foxing (than the faint smattering on the top text-block edge), no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. • SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy box. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. We are grateful you choose to trust us with your business. We aim for that gratitude to permeate every part of how we engage with you.3. 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Price: 22.5 USD

Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina

End Time: 2024-01-14T12:47:37.000Z

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