Author Archives: susan

It’s been quite an experience reading this anthology.  I’ve learned so much in watching Peter Taylor skillfully focus and bring out the innermost personality of his characters while weaving a setting that grounds the players together in an American South … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This story perhaps more than any other illustrates Taylor’s method of characterization through character observation.  There is, as a matter of fact, very much "overhearing" thus giving us what may (if we assume narrator reliability, and that’s been a major … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The majority of Taylor’s stories in this anthology are set in the old South of Tennessee and therefore there is the constant of social status as well as the racial relations.  Taylor’s amazing insight coupled with his skill at exposing … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve been trying to put my finger on how Peter Taylor manages the deep character revelation he does while in such a subtle way, particularly by using the narrator voice to establish something often quite different than what the narrator … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I believe this story is the first in the anthology to be written in third person pov, but Taylor’s method of indepth character revelation is just as powerful. The protagonist is a middle-aged woman, Harriet, with a grown son and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just read this in this Taylor short story: Now the sight of Son and Ann in this pretty frame only reminded her of their unnatural and strange relationship.  They were walking far apart and Ann was speaking with deliberation and … Continue reading → Continue reading →