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Scribner, May 1995
Trade Paperback, 336 pages
ISBN-10: 0684813386
ISBN-13: 9780684813387
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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 and write. Hutchins comes back home for a family crisis but ultimately returns to England, where he achieves a maturity that enables him to cope with commitments, abandonments, and the creation of an honest personal agenda.
In The Source of Light, Reynolds Price combines gravity and buoyancy, a mythic sense of the past with the mysteries of place, to forge an encompassing portrait of the strange and various world one travels through in the quest for self-fulfillment.
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The Dallas Morning News
Strong, disturbing....It is a book to be read, considered, pondered.
The Chicago Tribune
Price's scenes are rich with detail and glow evocatively in the memory; his language is that of a poet who has found his theme and exalts in unfolding it for you.
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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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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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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