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Scribner, February 2004
Trade Paperback, 640 pages
ISBN-10: 0743244990
ISBN-13: 9780743244992
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For more than four decades, Reynolds Price has been one of America's most distinguished writers, with a career remarkable both for its virtuosity and for the variety of literary forms embraced. Though perhaps best known as a novelist and poet, Price here likewise demonstrates his mastery of the short story.
These fifty stories include two early collections -- The Names and Faces of Heroes and Permanent Errors -- as well as more than two dozen stories that are gathered only in The Collected Stories. In his introduction, the author explains how, at one point, he wrote no stories for almost twenty years. "But," he writes, "once I needed -- for unknown reasons in a new and radically altered life -- to return to the story, it opened before me like a new chance." Indeed, chances abound here in stories that will astonish even Price's most devoted readers as they travel through not only the author's native North Carolina but also Jerusalem, the American Southwest, Europe, and Asia.
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The New York Times Book Review
A spellbinding collection, a book to be treasured.
Chicago Tribune
Complex, compelling stories....What a pleasure to have in hand.
The New York Times Book Review
Nobody writes so well about the joys and sorrows of the family. Nobody else can so deftly capture the lyric intensity
of simple happiness.
The Boston Globe
Price's best stories are built to last.
National Post, January 9, 2010
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National Post, December 21, 2009
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Reynolds Price's Books
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Letter to a GodchildIn the year 2000 acclaimed author Reynolds Price became honorary godfather to Harper Peck Voll. As a christening gift, Price composed a letter to the...Read More -
Noble NorfleetHaving given voice in previous novels to the extraordinary Kate Vaiden, Blue Calhoun, and Roxanna Slade, Reynolds Price -- one of America's most...Read More
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Three GospelsA 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...Read More
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Promise of RestIn 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...Read More
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Ardent SpiritsAward-winning novelist Reynolds Price provides “the best of his winning lot” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) of memoirs—a vivid...Read More
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Clear PicturesReynolds Price, novelist, poet, playwright and essayist, author of the bestseller Kate Vaiden and the recent Roxanna Slade, is one of the most...Read More
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Long and Happy LifeFROM 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...Read More
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Whole New LifeReynolds Price has long been one of America's most acclaimed and accomplished men of letters. In A Whole New Life he presents his most intimate story...Read More
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A Perfect FriendIt feels like yesterday that Ben's mother died -- but it's really been a whole year. Still, he misses her so much the sadness keeps him awake at...Read More
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Letter to a Man in the FireDoes God Exist and Does He Care? In April 1997 Reynolds Price received an eloquent letter from a reader of his cancer memoir, A Whole New Life. The...Read More
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The Good Priest's SonFlying home to New York after a much needed getaway abroad, private art conservator Mabry Kincaid learns that his downtown loft has been devastated by...Read More
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A Serious Way of WonderingWhen renowned novelist and poet Reynolds Price, one of Christianity's most eloquent outlaws, was invited to deliver the annual Peabody Lecture at...Read More
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A Perfect FriendA Moving Fable For Readers Of All Ages -- From National Book Critics Circle Award-Winning Author Reynolds Price Ben Barks loved elephants long before...Read More
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Feasting the HeartWhether recounting events from his past or examining the details of his current experience as a writer, teacher, traveler, and general witness of the...Read More
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Tongues of Angels"I'm as peaceful a man as you're likely to meet in America now, but this is about a death I may have caused. Not slowly over time by abuse or meanness...Read More
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Blue Calhoun"This starts with the happiest I ever was, though it brought down suffering on everybody near me. Short as it lasted and long ago, I've never laid it...Read More
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Roxanna SladeNot since Reynolds Price's award-winning, bestselling novel Kate Vaiden has he told a woman's story in her own voice. Roxanna Slade is this woman. ...Read More
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A Singular FamilyFOR THE FIRST TIME, THE ENTIRE MUSTIAN CYCLE IN ONE VOLUME, WITH A PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR Rosacoke Mustian initially "stood up, live from her first...Read More
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The Collected PoemsThis volume presents the full range of Reynolds Price's poetic accomplishment over the past thirty-six years. His first three collections are brought...Read More
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Kate Vaiden0ne of the most feisty, spellbinding and engaging heroines in modern fiction captures the essence of her own life in this contemporary American odyssey...Read More
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Source of LightHere is the second volume of A Great Circle, the highly acclaimed Mayfield family trilogy, from one of America's literary treasures. Though a novel...Read More
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Surface of EarthPublished in 1975, The Surface of Earth is the monumental narrative that charts the slow, inextricable twining of the Mayfield and Kendal families....Read More
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Collected Stories of Reynolds PriceFor over three decades, Reynolds Price has been one of America's most distinguished writers, in a career that has been remarkable both for its...Read More
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Foreseeable FutureReynolds Price's long and distinguished career has been remarkable both for his virtuosity and for the variety of forms he has embraced -- novels,...Read More
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