Book Description
The Old Forest provides a description of the social traditions of Southern aristocracy. The Hand of Emmagene tells of a young woman from the country who comes to stay with her relatives in town. 2 cassettes.
From AudioFile
This recording does so many things right. To begin with, Peter Taylor's classic story, set in 1930s Memphis, packs the substance of a novel while remaining brief enough to be swallowed in one sitting. It's a small masterpiece of spare writing and observant detail. Building on that auspicious foundation, Randal Cauldwell shows how effective a low-key narrator can be when reading a first-person text. As the story gets moving, you forget Cauldwell is there--he becomes the main character not through histrionics or accents, but simply by fading into the background and letting the prose take center stage. Nicely done. D.B. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine--
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