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Scribner, May 1998
Trade Paperback, 320 pages
ISBN-10: 0684846942
ISBN-13: 9780684846941
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0ne of the most feisty, spellbinding and engaging heroines in modern fiction captures the essence of her own life in this contemporary American odyssey born of red-clay land and small-town people. We meet Kate at a crucial moment in middle age when she begins to yearn to see the son she abandoned when she was seventeen. But if she decides to seek him, will he understand her?
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Kate Vaiden is a penetrating psychological portrait of an ordinary woman in extraordinary circumstances, a story as joyous, tragic, comic and compelling as life itself.
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San Francisco Chronicle
May well be Reynolds Price's best novel.
The New York Times Book Review
Intense and powerful...the voice of Mr. Price's heroine blows like fresh air across the page.
The Washington Post Book World
Beautifully written and skillfully narrated...a novel for all seasons.
Chicago Tribune Book World
Surely his finest work so far. A wise and wonderful story told by an artist
at the peak of his powers...you will want to meet Kate Vaiden and get to know her. And in the end...you will want to stand up for Reynolds Price.
USA Today
You won't hear many voices in your life that are as interesting as Kate Vaiden's.
Raleigh News & Observer, April 12, 2009
...Lifestyles Johnson's portrayal of five women living at the Ridgecrest Assisted Living facility are as convincing as Reynolds Price's Kate Vaiden and Allan Gurganus' Lucy Marsden. From the first page they step into your life and start talking ...
Reynolds Price's Books
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Ardent SpiritsAfter two earlier autobiographical works—Clear Pictures and A Whole New Life—acclaimed writer Reynolds Price offers a full account of his...Read More
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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The Collected StoriesFor more than four decades, Reynolds Price has been one of America's most distinguished writers, with a career remarkable both for its virtuosity and...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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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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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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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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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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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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