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Taylor Peter

The Lazy Winner

Infinite Ideas (Academic)

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The Lazy Winner is for all those who simply want to do more with less effort and succeed in their working and personal lives without rushing around like headless chickens or putting in 100 hour weeks. We are all too good to put our careers and work—life balance at risk by working too hard! The Lazy Winner builds on the concept of ‘productive laziness’, developed in Peter Taylor’s bestselling The Lazy Project Manager, which encourages people to apply more thought before leaping in to action and throwing effort at a problem or task. With better planning readers can ensure that they are Lazy Winners and achieve success in what they do at work and in life—more impressive results with the minimum of effort.
The Lazy Winner is for all those who simply want to do more with less effort and succeed in their working and personal lives without rushing around like headless chickens or putting in 100 hour weeks. We are all too good to put our careers and work—life balance at risk by working too hard! The Lazy Winner builds on the concept of ‘productive laziness’, developed in Peter Taylor’s bestselling The Lazy Project Manager, which encourages people to apply more thought before leaping in to action and throwing effort at a problem or task. With better planning readers can ensure that they are Lazy Winners and achieve success in what they do at work and in life—more impressive results with the minimum of effort.
The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor (FSG Classics)

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Described by Anne Tyler as “the undisputed master of the short story form,” Peter Taylor imbued his stories with a powerful sense of the conflicts between the old rural society and the increasingly urbanized South. Ranging in subject from the story of the exposure of a respected doctor’s infidelity by the family’s longtime cook to the tale of elderly siblings whose party for young people exposes the town’s class divisions, the stories often explore family dynamics within the larger society of the South.
A Summons to Memphis

Vintage

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One of the most celebrated novels of its time, the Pulitzer Prize winner A Summons to Memphis introduces the Carver family, natives of Nashville, residents, with the exception of Phillip, of Memphis, Tennessee.

During the twilight of a Sunday afternoon in March, New York book editor Phillip Carver receives an urgent phone call from each of his older, unmarried sisters. They plead with Phillip to help avert their widower father's impending remarriage to a younger woman. Hesitant to get embroiled in a family drama, he reluctantly agrees to go back south, only to discover the true motivation behing his sisters' concern. While there, Phillip is forced to confront his domineering siblings, a controlling patriarch, and flood of memories from this troubled past.

Peter Taylor is one of the masters of Southern literature, whose work stands in the company of Eudora Walty, James Agee, and Walker Percy. In A Summons to Memphis, he composed a richly evocative story of revenge, resolution, and redemption, and gave us a classic work of American literature.
Peter Taylor is well-known as a masterful writer of short stories set in the old South; not the well-explored South of explosive passions, but an urban world of faded gentility and empty custom. In his almost Jamesian evocations of the mannered upper classes in his native Tennessee, he neither romanticizes nor reviles, but meticulously observes, revealing the patterns of social behavior that leave the individual at the mercy of a relentless past. In this, only the second novel of his long career and the winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Taylor weaves a rich social web in telling the story of one family's stark social decline, symbolized by a move from Nashville to Memphis, and of the consequences through the years and down the generations.
The Art of Laziness

Infinite Ideas (Academic)

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In extracts from his bestselling The Lazy Project Manager and new book The Lazy Winner Peter Taylor shows readers how to get more out of work and life by organising their systems and routines so that they can work smarter not harder.
In extracts from his bestselling The Lazy Project Manager and new book The Lazy Winner Peter Taylor shows readers how to get more out of work and life by organising their systems and routines so that they can work smarter not harder.
In the Tennessee Country: A Novel

Picador

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In 1916, a young boy, Nathan Longfort, is on the funeral train bearing the body of his grandfather, the Senator, from Washington, D.C., to Knoxville, Tennessee. The memory of this journey will haunt him for the rest of his life. On this trip, he meets the enigmatic Cousin Aubrey, a man of "irregular kinship," the black sheep of the Longfort clan. As the years pass, and Aubrey disappears into the world, Nathan begins to compulsively collect rumors about his faraway life—as Nathan's mother's first true love, a charmer of European society, a Don Juan, a worldly success—and sees it in stinging contrast to his own unfulfilled dreams of becoming an artist. Much later in life, the two men—now old—will meet again.
The Old Forest and Other Stories

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From the grand master of the American short story, these fourteen tales of domestic life in the South during the thirties and forties explore that extraordinary world of manners, expectations and unspoken understanding. The reader is drawn as if by magnetic force into a world rendered in breathtaking, painterly detail. These stories are marvelous entertainments, rich with amusement, yet Taylor renders his characters truly and understands them in a profoundly meaningful way.
This collection features 14 stories set in the cities of the Deep South in the 1920s and 30s. The subjects are ordinary people -- families and households of the time -- caught in the extraordinary tensions of everyday life. The prose befits the topics; simple on the surface yet rich and elegant. And just because Peter Taylor, a native Southerner, has captured a time and a region in this refreshing book, doesn't mean the work will appeal only to those interested in "Southern" writers. This 1986 PEN/Faulkner Award winner is rich with the kind of material that will appeal to anyone interested in good storytelling.

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Energy and Commerce 'emissaries' a key to House floor success for ... - New York Times
New York Times, United States - May 22, 2009
Energy and Commerce 'emissaries' a key to House floor success for Gene Taylor (D-Miss.). "He was explaining how he'd become a convert. I'll just leave it at that. He did not try to twist my arm or influence my vote in any way." As degette, Doyle and many other Democrats are already seeing, their job will not be easy.

Taylor, Convissar lead Severna Park to state baseball championship - Annapolis Capital
Annapolis Capital, MD - May 23, 2009
Taylor, Convissar lead Severna Park to state baseball championship - Annapolis Capital Baltimore SunTaylor, Convissar lead Severna Park to state baseball championshipMike didn't have his best stuff today." Neither did Taylor. But it was more than enough. Peter Bowles led off the first with a single, and Tommy McCartin reached on an error and scored on Frank Barkanic's sacrifice fly to make it 1-1 in the second. Quince Orchard falls in state baseball championship game Linganore ousted by Quince Orchard in Class 4A semifinal

Revived Hunter fills its boots - Times Online
Times Online, UK - May 23, 2009
Revived Hunter fills its boots - Times Online Times OnlineRevived Hunter fills its bootsThe owners — a consortium that includes Mullen, who with his brother founded Thomas Pink shirts, former Tory treasurer Lord Marland, Julian Taylor and the Pentland sportswear group — have this month hired a new chief executive, Peter Taylor,

Duck island MP says his birds never liked it - Times Online
Times Online, UK - May 23, 2009
Duck island MP says his birds never liked it - Times Online Telegraph.co.ukDuck island MP says his birds never liked itDavid Taylor, the Labour MP for North West Leicestershire, will pay back at least £8000 for claims on his second home, including £995 for a chair, £1200 for a bed and £240 spent on pictures. Sally Keeble, Labour MP for Northampton North, has paid back How greed became God Expenses scandal claims more victims - but huge payouts await Expenses row: Tory MP Sir Peter Viggers quits over duck island claim

Nanne says Wild made right choice for GM - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - May 24, 2009
Nanne says Wild made right choice for GMA message for David Kahn, the new Timberwolves president of basketball of operations: The best decision you can make when it comes to selecting a coach is to bring Kevin McHale back, if he can come to terms with you and owner Glen Taylor.