The Presence of Things Past

The Presence of Things PastAuthor: John Taylor ISBN: 9781586541071 Publisher: Story Line Press Year first published: 04 Jan 2021 Pages: 106 Format: Hardback Collecting stories from John Taylor's upbringing in Des Moines, these "charming evocations of a Midwestern childhood" (as the French film director Louis Malle called them), recall an "average" neighborhood in the 1950s and 1960s. The death of the author's mother gives rise to these sensitive reminiscences, which also

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exploitation and complicity

and how he re-deployed earlier versions that he had used in his later work

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