Regardless of his widower father's reason for marrying a wealthy older woman, once Quint moves into the woman's St. Louis mansion he enjoys the feeling of having a real mother and a permanent home

A Woman of Means (Southern Writers Series)

Taylor, Peter Hillsman

Literature & Fiction

Avon/Books

Short stories depict critical moments in the lives of middle class Southerners during the 1930s and 1940s

The Old Forest and Other Stories

Contemporary

DOUBLEDAY

Presences; seven dramatic pieces

Houghton/Mifflin

A Summons to Memphis

Demco Media

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.

In the Miro District, and other stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

Chatto and Windus

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.

In the Miro District and Other Stories (Voices of the South)

Louisiana State Univ Pr

Philip has a new life in New York but is returned to the petty meddling of his family when his two spinster sisters call upon him to help them ruin their eighty-one-year-old father's wedding plans

Summons to Memphis (G.K. Hall Large Print Book Series)

G.K.Hall & Co.

Eight new stories by the acclaimed writer explore the secrets, mysteries, needs, dreams, and private places of relationships involving the young, the old, and the middle-aged

In the Miro District and Other Stories

Carroll & Graf Pub.

As a boy's attachment to his high class stepmother and her "means" grows, her marriage to his father begins to crumble in small, subtle ways, which ultimately lead to larger, more devastating consequences. The first Southern novel of time, memory, and family secrets by the Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller.

Woman of Means

Frederic C. Beil

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