For insomnia
The Old Forest. By Peter Taylor. King Penguin, 1987. 358 pp. $16.99 (paperback). | This collection of short stories, written and published between i 1941 and 1985 in such prestigious journals as the “New Yorker” and !“The Kenyon Review,” has cover extracts from reviews which praise | Taylor as “an American master” and; "a superb storyteller” who “is to Tennessee what Faulkner was to Mississippi.” i This reviewer is completely mystified why such praise [is heaped on Taylor. His stories of the old new south! begin and end nowhere and havel characters who [are | soon forgotten. The action in pach, story progresses at a snail’s pace largely due to the fact that thej author is highly detail-conscious and can best be described as “a petit pointillist in words.” The literary critics [ may enthuse, but the general reader is likelj/ to find these short stories tediobs and more like a palliative for insomnia.—Alan Conway. | I
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