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Books by Reynolds Price
  | | Letter To A Man In The Fire Does God Exist And Does He Care by Reynolds Price Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2000 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-0-684-85627-8, ISBN: 0-684-85627-1 "The impetus for this slim, poetic volume was a stranger's correspondence. In April 1997 Reynolds Price received a letter from Jim Fox, a young man who had recently withdrawn from medical school due to colon and liver cancer. Fox had read A Whole New Life, Price's book about his bout and with spinal cancer, and was moved enough by their similar experiences to write. He was also searching for reassurance, or wisdom, if not outright answe ..." |
 | | The Source of Light(Reprint) by Reynolds Price Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1995 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-0-684-81338-7, ISBN: 0-684-81338-6 "Here is the second volume of A Great Circle, the highly acclaimed Mayfield family trilogy, from one of America's literary treasures. Though a novel independent from The Surface of Earth, The Source of Light continues the saga of the Mayfield family, here focusing on Hutchins Mayfield, whose desire for self-knowledge removes him from his secure existence as a prep school teacher and takes him on a journey to Oxford and Italy to study an ..." |
 | | The Surface of Earth(Reprint) by Reynolds Price Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 1995 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-0-684-81339-4, ISBN: 0-684-81339-4 "Published in 1975, The Surface of Earth is the monumental narrative that charts the slow, inextricable twining of the Mayfield and Kendal families. Set in the plain of North Carolina and the coast and hills of Virginia from 1903 to 1944, it chronicles the marriage of Forrest Mayfield and Eva Kendal, the hard birth of their son, Eva's return to her father after her mother's death, and the lives of two succeeding generations. The Surface ..." |
 | | Three Gospels(Reprint) by Reynolds Price Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1997 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-0-684-83281-4, ISBN: 0-684-83281-X "In Three Gospels, Reynolds Price returns to the central story on which he has concentrated through thirty years of study, teaching, and translation - the fourfold account of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, an observant Jew who taught, healed, and died obscurely in a small province of the Roman empire during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius Caesar. Bypassing the Gospels of Matthew and Luke as secondary, Price revises his earlier transl ..." |
 | | A Whole New Life(Reprint) An Illness and a Healing by Reynolds Price Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2003 by Scribner Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-3854-0, ISBN: 0-7432-3854-0 "Reynolds Price has long been one of America's most acclaimed and accomplished men of letters -- the author of novels, stories, poems, essays, plays, and a memoir. In A Whole New Life, however, he steps from behind that roster of achievements to present us with a more personal story, a narrative as intimate and compelling as any work of the imagination.In 1984, a large cancer was discovered in his spinal cord ("The tumor was pencil-thick ..." |
 | | A Long and Happy Life(Reprint) A Novel by Reynolds Price Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2009 by Scribner Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-0934-2, ISBN: 1-4391-0934-6 "On its initial publication in 1962, Eudora Welty said of A Long and Happy Life, "Reynolds Price is the most impressive new writer I've come across in a long time. His is a first-rate talent and we are lucky that he has started so young to write so well. Here is a fine novel."From its dazzling opening page, which announced the appearance of a stylist of the first rank, to its moving close, this brief novel has charmed and captivated mill ..." |
 | | Kate Vaiden(Reprint) by Reynolds Price Paperback, 306 Pages, Published 1998 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-0-684-84694-1, ISBN: 0-684-84694-2 "Familial dysfunction defines this Price effort--his first experiment with a first-person narrator in a full-length novel. Kate Vaiden is left parentless as a child when her father fatally shoots her mother and then himself. As an adult, Kate attests, "I'd caused their deaths." She isn't the only one in such a predicament: her mother's mother died in childbirth, and the father of her child was raised an orphan. Trapped in a self-de ..." |
 | | Roxanna Slade(Reprint) A Novel by Reynolds Price Paperback, 301 Pages, Published 1999 by Scribner Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-684-85373-4, ISBN: 0-684-85373-6 "It is this book's particular genius to compress our century and all of its extraordinary upheavals into the life of one decidedly ordinary Southern woman born in 1900. Told in Roxanna Slade's own inimitable voice, she begins her story abruptly at the age of 20, with an episode that's both an aberration from the life that follows and her life's single most significant event. In the course of a single afternoon, Roxanna meets a shockingly ..." |
 | | A Long and Happy Life(Reprint) by Reynolds Price Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 1987 by Atheneum ISBN-13: 978-0-689-11947-7, ISBN: 0-689-11947-X "On its initial publication in 1962, Eudora Welty said of "A Long and Happy Life," "Reynolds Price is the most impressive new writer I've come across in a long time. His is a first-rate talent and we are lucky that he has started so young to write so well. Here is a fine novel."From its dazzling opening page, which announced the appearance of a stylist of the first rank, to its moving close, this brief novel has charmed and captivated mi ..." |
 | | Clear Pictures(Reprint) First Loves First Guides by Reynolds Price Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2009 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-0933-5, ISBN: 1-4391-0933-8 "Reynolds Price, novelist, poet, playwright and essayist, author of the bestseller "Kate Vaiden" and the recent "Roxanna Slade", is one of the most accomplished writers ever to come out of the South. He is an author rooted in its old life and ways; and this is his vivid, powerful memoir of his first twenty-one years growing up in North Carolina. Spanning the years from 1933 to 1954, Price accurately captures the spirit of a community rec ..." |
 | | A Whole New Life An Illness and a Healing by Reynolds Price Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1995 by Plume ISBN-13: 978-0-452-27473-0, ISBN: 0-452-27473-7 "Recounting without self-pity his struggle with cancer, the acclaimed author tells a personal story of multiple surgeries, radiation therapy, biofeedback and ..." |
 | | A Serious Way of Wondering(Reprint) The Ethics of Jesus Imagined by Reynolds Price Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2006 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-3009-4, ISBN: 0-7432-3009-4 "When renowned novelist and poet Reynolds Price, one of Christianity's most eloquent outlaws, was invited to deliver the annual Peabody Lecture at Harvard University Memorial Church in 2001, he chose to explore a subject of fierce debate and timeless relevance: the ethics of Jesus. In two succeeding lectures at the National Cathedral and at Auburn Seminary, Price continued to explore the apparently contradictory ethics that Jesus artic ..." |
 | | Ardent Spirits(1st Edition) Leaving Home, Coming Back by Reynolds Price Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2009 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-9189-7, ISBN: 0-7432-9189-1 "In his third volume of memoir, Reynolds Price explores six crucial years of his life -- his departure from home in 1955 to spend three years as a student at Oxford University; then his return to North Carolina to begin his long career as a university teacher.He gives often moving, and frequently comic, portraits of his great teachers in England -- such men as Lord David Cecil, Nevill Coghill, and W. H. Auden, who was the most distinguis ..." |
 | | Long and Happy Life by Reynolds Price Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2007 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-8808-5, ISBN: 1-4165-8808-6 "On its initial publication in 1962, Eudora Welty said of A Long and Happy Life, "Reynolds Price is the most impressive new writer I've come across in a long time. His is a first-rate talent and we are lucky that he has started so young to write so well. Here is a fine novel." From its dazzling opening page, which announced the appearance of a stylist of the first rank, to its moving close, this brief novel has charmed and captivated ..." |
 | | The Promise of Rest(Updated) by Reynolds Price, Gary Pomeranz Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1996 by Scribner Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-684-82510-6, ISBN: 0-684-82510-4 "In this stunning and fully independent conclusion to A Great Circle, Reynolds Price tells the complex, moving story of a man's return home to die of AIDS and of the unexpected effect that his arrival -- and his death -- has on his family. Wade Mayfield's parents are separated, but for the remaining months of his life they and their friends come together to care for Wade with the love they can muster. They are unprepared, however, for t ..." |
 | | The Promise of Rest by Reynolds Price Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 1995 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-0-684-80149-0, ISBN: 0-684-80149-3 "Returning to his North Carolina family home to die from AIDS, Wade Mayfield induces feelings and patience in his attending, divorced parents that initiate a possible reunion and the perpetuation of a proud family tradition. 40,000 first printing. Tour." |
 | | The Foreseeable Future(Reprint) Three Stories by Reynolds Price Libro De Bolsillo, 275 Pages, Published 1992 by Ballantine Books (Mm) ISBN-13: 978-0-345-37721-0, ISBN: 0-345-37721-4 "The Fare to the Moon,"" ""Back before Day,"" and the title story, in which a soldier returns barely whole from the war and must find a reason to live. By the author of Blue Calhoun. Reprint. NYT. " |
 | | Three Gospels(1st Edition) by Reynolds Price, Non Stated Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1996 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-0-684-80336-4, ISBN: 0-684-80336-4 "A decade after he published his famous first novel, A Long and Happy Life, Reynolds Price began a serious study of the Hebrew and Greek narratives which combine to form that crucial document of Western civilization we call the Bible. Since early childhood, Price had known Bible stories of patriarchs, kings, prophets, and the boldly assertive women of Ancient Israel, as well as the four-fold gospel story of the life of Jesus -- ..." |
 | | Letter to a Godchild(1st Edition) Concerning Faith by Reynolds Price, Harper Peck Voll Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2006 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-9180-4, ISBN: 0-7432-9180-8 "In the year 2000 acclaimed author Reynolds Price became honorary godfather to Harper Peck Voll. As a christening gift, Price composed a letter to the child, one intended as a brief guide for Harper's spiritual future. The letter sketched the crucial roles which faith had played in Price's own life and whittled down those lessons the author felt were most valuable. Later, Price realized that in a rapidly complicating world, his thoughts ..." |
 | | Perfect Friend (Paperback) by Reynolds Price Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2002 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-2521-2, ISBN: 0-7432-2521-X "Still grieving over the death of his mother, eleven-year-old Ben finds solace in the special relationship he forms with an elephant in a visiting circus." |
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