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The Old Forest

By: Peter Taylor
Narrated by: Randall Caudwell
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Publisher's summary

Enjoy 2 American masterpieces from the pen of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Peter Taylor. In "The Old Forest," a young girl who was with Nat in a car accident is now missing - and it falls upon Nat's fiancie to find her. The reasons involve love, tradition, and a woman's power. "The Hand of Emmagene," a tale with a slightly different tone, involves Emmagene, a girl who moves from the country to stay with her city relatives. Extremely religious, she soon finds herself racked with conflicts when she begins dating boys from home.
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Critic reviews

  • PEN/Faulkner Award Winner, 1986

"The Old Forest is an American masterpiece." (The Washington Post)
"No one writes more beautifully than Peter Taylor of the tension of love - not erotic love, but love of family, love of tradition." (Joyce Carol Oates)

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unusual but interesting

It is an old fashioned story told from the point of view of an engaged, somewhat immature upper class 20 something. I liked the subtle ways the author shows how he changes over the course of the story. I also liked the way it describes women in that time.

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