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The Old Forest

By: Peter Taylor
Narrated by: Randall Caudwell
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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.
(P) and ©1995 Commuter's Library

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  • 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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