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Scribner, April 1999
Trade Paperback, 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0684853736
ISBN-13: 9780684853734
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Not 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.
Roxanna begins her story on her twentieth birthday -- a day that introduces her to the harsh realities of adulthood and changes the course of her life forever. From this day on, Roxanna is quick to share with the reader the intimate details of ninety years of life in North Carolina. Her beguiling tale is one that boldly reflects the high and low moments in the development of the modern South and the nation as well as the inner strength of a woman possessed of a piercingly clear vision, forthright hungers and immense vitality.
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Richard Bernstein The New York Times Reading Reynolds Price's novel Roxanna Slade is like sitting through a long and languid North Carolina evening and listening to an intimate summing up of a hard life.
Diana Postlethwaite The Washington Post Reading Roxanna Slade is like sitting at the feet of the wisest, most engaging, truth-tellingest grandmother imaginable....Here is language you can swim in, inhale, savor on the tip of your tongue.
David Weigand San Francisco Chronicle Roxanna Slade is a profoundly and provocatively hope-filled book
-- one might even say spiritual....Masterful...compelling.
Charles Frazier author of Cold Mountain What a privilege to sit down with this book and let Roxanna Slade's wise, strong voice talk in your mind for a measure of hours about the profound consequence of ordinary lives.
James Schiff The Raleigh News & Observer A virtuoso performance...through Roxanna's voice Price demonstrates that he, more than any of his contemporaries, is indeed a singer of stories.
Janet Burroway The New York Times Book Review A chronicler of decency, pluck and joy, in novel after novel [Price] has given us the weight and worth of the ordinary.
Ellen Kanner The Miami Herald Roxanna Slade shows that in a world of deceit, a simple, good woman is something exceptional. She can tell a good story if you have the time to listen.
Barbara Holliday Detroit Free Press Reynolds Price may well be the dean of Southern writers.
Anne Rivers Siddons Extraordinary. Price knows all there is to know about the American South, and Roxanna Slade is what he knows. It's a powerful book in its deceptive simplicity, vivid and particular. I loved it.
Polly Paddock Gossett The Charlotte Observer Price proves yet again why he is one of America's most esteemed writers. His prose is rich and lyrical; his insights keen; his ability to slip inside the skin of his characters (especially women) astounding.
David FinkleThe Trenton TimesListening to [Roxanna Slade] is like falling asleep in the lap of someone you trust, someone who, while telling you all is not right with the world, does so in a way that convinces you it eventually will be.
Scott RomineThe Greensboro News & RecordLike Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor before him, [Price] masterfully portrays those moments when the bottom drops out of everyday reality and deeper patterns emerge....Roxanna Slade is, in sum, a sensitive and compelling work by one of our most important contemporary writers.
Vanessa V. FriedmanEntertainment WeeklyThe epiphanies and upsets of [Roxanna's] life are wholly personal. It's a life that is quiet
-- and quietly enthralling.
Judy DoengesThe Seattle Times/Post IntelligencerRoxanna Slade is a fitting example of Reynolds Price's talent in evoking the lives of everyday Southerners. Roxanna herself is both familiar and original, as complex and as simple as any of us. Throughout her near-century-long story she remains in touch and in love with our changing world, a comforting escort to the millennium.
David KirbyThe Atlanta Journal ConstitutionA taut and disciplined yet highly affecting read.
James T. BlackSouthern LivingJust as he did with his award-winning book Kate Vaiden, writer Reynolds Price once again paints a thoughtful portrait of a woman trying to understand her world and herself.
Nancy PateThe Orlando SentinelWith sturdy Roxanna Slade, [Price] has created another gifted storyteller with a voice you can't get out of your head.
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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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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