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You'll Enjoy It When You Get There - The Stories of Elizabeth Taylor (Paperback)
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You'll Enjoy It When You Get There - The Stories of Elizabeth Taylor (Paperback)
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An NYRB Classics Original
Nearly forty years after her death, Elizabeth Taylor is only
beginning to gain the recognition due to her as one of the finest
English writers of the postwar period, notwithstanding the praise
she has received from writers as different as Sarah Waters and
Hilary Mantel. Inheriting Ivy Compton-Burnett's uncanny sensitivity
to the terrifying undercurrents that swirl beneath the apparent
calm of respectable family life while showing a deep sympathy of
her own for human loneliness, Taylor depicted dislocation with the
unflinching presence of mind of Graham Greene. For Taylor, however,
unlike Greene, dislocation began not in distant climes but right at
home. It is in the living room, playroom, and bedroom that Taylor
stages her unforgettable dramas of alienation and impossible
desire.
In 2012, NYRB Classics reissued two of Taylor's finest novels, and
"The""New York Times Book Review" hailed the reemergence of this
wonderful neglected author. Now, for the first time in more than a
quarter century, Taylor's stories, in many ways the heart of her
achievement, will be available to readers in the United States,
presented in a revelatory new selection by Margaret Drabble. In
Taylor's extensive body of short fiction, the bulk of which was
originally taken by the legendary editor and writer William Maxwell
for "The""New Yorker," her range of feeling and the power of her
writing are evident as nowhere else.
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