Bøger af Beverly Taylor

A riveting series of fiction based on the mythical town called Hideaway.Betteen, now in her 60s, sits down to tell the visitor about the secret town called Hideaway. Its legendary orgins are linked to namesake Cecil Hideaway, a church, and four houses on each side of a mythical Mama tree. Surrounding that landscape are 13 engaging chronicles-filled with beauty and darkness-about the neighbors' domestic encounters, spiritual upheavals, and unexpected violence. Speaking in the plain and non-standard English of regular Southern folk, Betteen describes the characters and events of her Hideaway with language that features idiomatic phrases and pronunciations that are magnetically engaging. In fact, her voice is as riveting as the events themselves and are a special treasure for readers. In her marvelous character portraits, her stylistic dependence on the gnomic tradition gives her narrative a voice quality that corresponds with classic black fiction like Jean Toomer's Cane and Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard. At then end, with the dramatic dissolution of her relationship with Randell, she leaves listeners with a profoundly spiritual lesson about how a neighborhood can represent through both beauty and darkness, the fears, comedy, and tragedies that we all must face. She ends with, "He gave us what we needed every day in a secret place called Hideaway."

Beverly Taylor has a master's degree in psychology and worked as a probation officer for many years with problem families, delinquent children and abused women. Among her varied experiences, Ms. Taylor includes, living in Italy and studying philosophy at the University of Florence. After her retirement, she was a volunteer in the Israeli Defense Force at the outbreak of the war with Lebanon.She published a book of poems and one of short stories. One story and other articles appeared in "Jewish Currents." Another was in "The Reporter," a newspaper in Florida.Her play "Spinning and Spinning" was listed in the theatre yearbook, "Best Plays of 1995-96." Ms. Taylor has written many other plays, stories, and poems. She has had plays produced in New York and Florida to good reviews. She has written four historical dramas, of which three are of major Jewish historical figures.

States that the revival of interest in Arthurian legend in the 19th century was a remarkable phenomenon, apparently at odds with the spirit of the age. This book gives an account of the major English and American contributions and includes a bibliography of British and American creative writing relating to the Arthurian legends since 1800.

Here is a fairy tale for the Child in all of us, full of elements that fills us with wonder as a child and keep us young. No matter how many wrinkles you find looking into our mirrors in the morning. Within these pages we gaze with awe at majestic dragons, their adventures as you never experience before. Listen to wondrous tales, feel the chilled apprehension of a foxhole in a muddy battlefield facing an unknown enemy. Don