Volume 40, Number 6 · March 25, 1993
Out of the Blue
By Robert Towers
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court
by Peter Taylor
Knopf, 324 pp., $22.00
In a review of Peter Taylor's previous collection, The Old Forest and Other Stories, almost eight years ago, I observed that Taylor, among the finest living American writers of realist short fiction, avoided the melodrama and extreme situations characteristic of so many other southern writers, including Faulkner and O'Connor: in his stories of provincial life, death and sex take place offstage. There is no rhetoric and no hint of the gothic. Taylor has been preeminently an artist of the 'normal.'
Review, 3478 words
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