Expanding the themes in The Presence of Things Past , his debut collection of stories, John Taylor reveals himself to be a master of the intimate in Mysteries of the Body and the Mind .
Set in Iowa, Idaho, and France (where the author has lived since 1977), these twenty-four stories act as a sort of reverse coming of age, as Brian McCombie put it in his review of the first edition in The Bloomsbury Review , with the memory evoked on.
Story Line Press Mysteries of the body and the mind, hardcover/john taylor
