Tag Archives: Peter Taylor

Just got totally blown away by Taylor’s Bad Dreams.  Leaves me speechless. Continue reading →

Wow.  Just caught the drift of Taylor’s genius at showing character.  In using the first person pov of the father describing his relationship with his son, there is an unreliability about the narrator not necessarily that he is hiding something … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This just makes you want to slap him hard: After raining all morning, the skies seemed to be clearing.  It was mostly bright while we sat there, with only an occasional dark interval.  During those dark intervals, Hugh ate feverishly; … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There are similarities between Peter Taylor’s stories in the first person pov and Raymond Carver’s Cathedral. What has become prominent for me is the way he handles the narrator’s evaluation of another character’s actions.  There is an underlying theme that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just finished Peter Taylor’s story The Old Forest and I understand that the theme is one of how people treat one another, and how change comes slowly.  There is a friendly tone to Taylor’s first person narrator and in the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Forty pages into this particular story and I’ve learned this: A young man has been caught with having had a girl other than his fiancee in his car a week before his wedding, as they’ve had an automobile accident.  The … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The second story in this anthology is the title story and is a long one so I figured I’d start writing on it rather than waiting until I finish. This one is first person pov, the narrator being a young … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Mitchell’s Black Swan Green hasn’t grabbed my full attention so I’ve taken out as well this collection of short stories by Peter Taylor that I’ve had for years–since a creative writing class and a recommendation by the instructor. The first … Continue reading →