Background
Price, Reynolds was born on February 1, 1933 in Macon, North Carolina, United States. Son of William Solomon and Elizabeth (Rodwell) Price.
("I'm as peaceful a man as you're likely to meet in Americ...)
"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 but on a certain day and by ignorance, by plain lack of notice. Though it happened thirty-four years ago, and though I can't say it's haunted my mind that many nights lately, I suspect I can draw it out for you now, clear as this noon. I may need to try." Set in a summer camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains during the deceptively tranquil 1950s, The Tongues of Angels is a story of the twenty-one-year-old painting teacher, a superbly gifted boy, and their advance toward a startling fate. As the now-older man looks back at on that summer, he reflects on the meanings he thought he had learned on the threshold of manhood from the perspective of full maturity.
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(Here is the second volume of A Great Circle, the highly a...)
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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(In Three Gospels, Reynolds Price returns to the central s...)
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 translation of the breakneck and vivid Gospel of Mark (the oldest gospel); he provides a literal but startlingly eloquent translation of the Gospel of John (the gospel derived from apparent eyewitness); and he adds an entirely new gospel of his own, "An Honest Account of a Memorable Life." This new gospel, like the whole of the volume, is grounded meticulously in the earliest known historical and theological evidence; and it aims to render the highest possible contemporary justice to the acts and teachings of Jesus. To introduce his translations - closer to the original Greek than perhaps any other translations - Price has provided richly informative prefaces that probe the strategies and the inexplicable originality of the two prime gospel writers; and in a preface to his own gospel, he offers insight into his reasons for creating a modern gospel and his own restrained methods for proceeding.
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Ecstatically reviewed and winner of the William Faulkner Award for a notable first novel when it was published in 1962, A Long and Happy Life launched the career of Reynolds Price, a writer considered to be "one of our greatest novelists" (Harper Lee). 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 millions of readers since its original publication almost fifty years ago. The troubled love story of pretty, headstrong Rosacoke Mustian and the motorcycle-riding, stoic Wesley Beavers, A Long and Happy Life beautifully evokes a rural North Carolina now long gone.
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(Stories that contain a controlling effort - the attempt t...)
Stories that contain a controlling effort - the attempt to isolate in a number of lives the central error of act, will, understanding which, once made, has been permanent, incurable, but whose diagnosis and palliation are the hopes of continuance."
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(Reynolds Price has long been one of America's most acclai...)
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 and gray-colored, ten inches long from my neck-hair downward"). Here, for the first time, Price recounts without self-pity what became a long struggle to withstand and recover from this appalling, if all too common, affliction (one American in three will experience some from of cancer). He charts the first puzzling symptoms; the urgent surgery that fails to remove the growth and the radiation that temporarily arrests it (but hurries his loss of control of his lower body); the occasionally comic trials of rehab; the steady rise of severe pain and reliance on drugs; two further radical surgeries; the sustaining force of a certain religious vision; an eventual discovery of help from biofeedback and hypnosis; and the miraculous return of his powers as a writer in a new, active life. Beyond the particulars of pain and mortal illness, larger concerns surface here -- a determination to get on with the human interaction that is so much a part of this writer's much-loved work, the gratitude he feels toward kin and friends and some (though by no means all) doctors, the return to his prolific work, and the "now appalling, now astonishing grace of God." A Whole New Life offers more than the portrait of one brave person in tribulation; it offers honest insight, realistic encouragement and inspiration to others who suffer the bafflement of catastrophic illness or who know someone who does or will.
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(Award-winning novelist Reynolds Price provides a vivid po...)
Award-winning novelist Reynolds Price provides a vivid portrait of his life in the mid-1950s leading up to the publication of his brilliant first novel A Long and Happy Life—detailing his time as a Rhodes scholar, writer, and a teacher.
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This paperback edition of the acclaimed 1987 hardcover is a collection of essays exploring a variety of subjects including other writers, music, cooking, religion, and many more.
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(Reynolds Price's long and distinguished career has been r...)
Reynolds Price's long and distinguished career has been remarkable both for his virtuosity and for the variety of forms he has embraced -- novels, stories, poems, essays, translations and plays. Now one of America's most respected and accomplished men of letters brings his formidable talents to bear on the long story, a form of novelistic scope and poetic intensity. In the three stories that comprise The Foreseeable Future, we encounter some of Price's most arresting and moving characters, set against large vistas, namely the future, its banquet of promises and terrifying consequences. For Kayes Paschal in "The Fare to the Moon" this means leaving the black woman he loves -- and for whom he has already left his wife and son -- as he is called off to World War II ("Forget about Hitler and the wide Pacific, I could die this minute in full possession of all I hoped to find in life, whoever I hurt"). In the title story, for Whit Wade -- returning severely wounded from that same war and "dead" a long year afterwards -- it will mean unearthing his life again, and all its possibilities, among his family and the people he loves. And for Dean Walker -- loyal father and son, football coach and troubled young husband, the protagonist of "Back Before Day" -- the most important hours of his life till now will occur one hectic night before dawn breaks on a day that will be unlike any other in the knowledge and promise it brings. Generous, wise, rich with the details of very human lives, The Foreseeable Future is proof again of Reynolds Price's mastery and vision.
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8vo. x, 195 (1) pp, A Single Meaning: Notes on The Origins and Life of Narrative; A Note on Translation and Selection; The Stories (from Deueronomy; Genesis; Exodus; Numbers; Joshua; Samuel; Kings; The Good New According to Mark; Revelations). First Edition, 1978. Grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine. ''By removing centuries of stylistic varnish, the author has stripped these thirty stories down to something approaching their original rough-hewn and reckless power, making it possible for us to hear them approaching their original rough-hewn and reckless power, making it possible for us to hear them almost as if for the first time." from the jacket flap.
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(In the year 2000 acclaimed author Reynolds Price became h...)
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 might also be useful for other children and their parents. Here, then, is an expanded version of the original letter -- an eloquent, thoughtful, and inspiring look at faith from one of the most revered American writers and most respected students of religion. In Letter to a Godchild, Price recounts how his life has been shaped by numerous and varied spiritual influences -- from the Bible-story books his parents bought him before he could read, to the childhood days spent exploring dense woods near his home (woods where he searched for arrowheads and spied on numerous wild animals), to Sundays at church with his father and mother, his travels around the world to magisterial structures as various as St. Peter's and the old Penn Station, and years of study both in and out of the classroom. With no trace of self-pity, he explains how his faith grew and deepened when in 1984 -- after a life of robust health -- he suffered a cancer that eventually led to paralysis of his lower body. Letter to a Godchild includes striking pictures of the buildings, objects, places, and events that have deepened the author's religious sensibility. He has also compiled a comprehensive section on further reading, looking, and listening that provides suggestions for books, art, and music that will entertain as well as enhance this volume. A profoundly intelligent and moving explication of religion and spirituality, Letter to a Godchild is an exhilarating experience for readers of all faiths.
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(A new collection of poetry from the author of Kate Vaiden...)
A new collection of poetry from the author of Kate Vaiden and The Laws of Ice probes the creative, procreative temperament of fire, in a life-enhancing poetic vision.
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(A Palpable God: Thirty Stories Translated from the Bible ...)
A Palpable God: Thirty Stories Translated from the Bible With an Essay on the Origins and Life of Narrative Reynolds Price explains why he turns to the Bible as a source of inspiration in both his writing life and his spiritual life.
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("A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE deals with love - simply yet subtl...)
"A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE deals with love - simply yet subtly, tenderly and movingly. The question it asks is, What happens when a necessary charitable gesture recoils? when its effect is the opposite of one's intention? Rosacoke Mustian is an unforgettable character - perhaps that rarest of figures in a novel: an unmistakably and deeply good woman. She hopes for and dreams of "a long and happy life," and one experiences her many difficulties and frustrations with tender amusement, affection and respect. She gives herself; the gift is misunderstood and not appreciated. Yet the purity of her intent, of her whole attitude toward life, toward herself and others, cannot be corrupted, and it is hardly an overstatement to say that the reader himself will grow in wisdom as Rosacoke grows, until with her he understands and accepts the necessity of change in relationships of love." -- From the book's dust jacket. Winner of the 1962 William Faulkner Award for notable first novel. Reynolds Price, born Edward Reynolds Price, was an American poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. He was born and died (2011) in North Carolina.
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(Cast 9M, 4 W. Set in the spring of 1945, Private Contentm...)
Cast 9M, 4 W. Set in the spring of 1945, Private Contentment tells the story of a few days in the life of young Logan Melton. His mother dies suddenly in North Carolina, and Logan is called home fron a west-coast military base where he awaits shipment towards the expected invasion of mainland Japan. After the funeral, Logan accompanies his father on a business trip and discovers an old and potent secret - his father has for many years maintained a second family, With the fear of war and the grief of his mother still heavy on him, Logan must now contend with an intimate revelation more complex and demanding than he has faced. His final peace with that complexity is the start of his manhood.
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"This collection of stories by the author of A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE adds another measure to the literary stature of Reynolds Price. Here once again are the men, women and children of the small towns of north central North Carolina, observed with tenderness and brought to familiar life. Here even is the heroine of A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE, Rosacoke Mustian, caught unforgettably at an earlier moment in her life, at a moment when that life reaches out to broader vision. Mr. Price deals always with the deep, old experiences of the generations, with the reaching for maturity and the poignant experience of aging, with the intermediate states of consciousness between vision and reality. In his moving title story, for example, a grown man discovers belatedly but urgently that his childhood quest for the meaning of heroism had been fulfilled when he was only nine. And whether Reynolds Price describes an ancient Negro woman living out her days dozing in the sunlight, believing herself in the lost past; two boys half believing in the magic they invoke on a moonlight night when they decide to die; or the desolation of a boy at summer camp who learns with no preparation that the visitor accompanying his mother is "his new father" - he consistently enlarges our understanding, warms and disturbs our hearts." (From the dust jacket) Reynolds Price, born Edward Reynolds Price, was an American poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Price was born and died (2011) in North Carolina.
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(Whether recounting events from his past or examining the ...)
Whether recounting events from his past or examining the details of his current experience as a writer, teacher, traveler, and general witness of the world, Reynolds Price shows us how a writer finds meaning in the day-to-day details of living. In this engaging collection of fifty-two personal essays originally aired on NPR's All Things Considered, Price explores topics that range from family and faith to capital punishment and his adventures while navigating an immensely inaccessible America in a wheelchair. Throughout, Price never loses sight of the origin or spirit of the essay -- in French, essayer means to try or attempt -- and each piece is a well-informed, revealing, often amusing and refreshing foray into a moment unlike any other we've shared with him.
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(It feels like yesterday that Ben's mother died -- but it'...)
It 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 night. Lying in the dark, the only thing that helps Ben sleep is to think about elephants, those magnificent creatures that his mother loved too. Sooner or later, the thought of their awesome grace always calms him in a way that his sad father, and his two closest friends, never can. Though Ben feels a particular connection to elephants, just as his mother did, he has only once seen a real one -- at a circus when he was very young. So when word spreads of a small one-ring circus coming to town, Ben anxiously awaits its arrival. His anticipation is more than satisfied when he gets to meet Sala -- whose name means "Sacred Tree" -- the sole survivor of a group of four elephants poisoned by a wicked trainer. With his unusual ability to understand the thoughts of animals, Ben and Sala emerge from the depths of their grief to forge a bond that brings them both comfort and gives Ben renewed hope to face the future. In his first book for young readers, distinguished author Reynolds Price weaves a powerful story that explores the inevitable and essential balance between joy and sorrow and the fine line between the things most exhilarating and frightening in life.
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(In this stunning and fully independent conclusion to A Gr...)
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 the astonishing mystery Wade has prepared to reveal once he is gone -- a mystery that initiates the possible reunion of his parents and promises to continue the proud traditions of a complex, multiracial family.
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("This starts with the happiest I ever was, though it brou...)
"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 all out yet, not start to finish. But if I try and half succeed, you may wind up understanding things, choosing a better road for yourself and maybe not blaming the dead past but living for the here and now, each day a clean page." April 28, 1956, was the day Blue Calhoun met a sixteen-year-old girl named Luna. And for the next three decades, their love has borne consequences of the most shattering -- and ultimately, perhaps healing -- kind for everyone they know. As Blue recounts the years and their events for us -- fervently, tenderly, knowing full well his own deep responsibility -- we are made witnesses to a story of classic dimensions, a story of love and suffering, family and friendship, death and redemption.
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( From Reynolds Price, much acclaimed author of award-win...)
From Reynolds Price, much acclaimed author of award-winning novels, plays, poems, stories, and essays, comes a work that is unique among contemporary writers of American literature. For more than forty years, Price has kept a working journal of his writing life. Now published for the first time, Learning a Trade provides a revealing window into this writer’s creative process and craftsman’s sensibilities. Whether Price is reflecting on the rhythm of his day-to-day writing process or ruminating about the central character in what would become, for instance, Kate Vaiden—should she be a woman, what would be her name, why would the story be told in the first person?—he envelops the reader in the task at hand, in the trade being practiced. Instead of personal memoir or a collection of literary fragments, Learning a Trade presents what Price has called the “ongoing minutes” of his effort to learn his craft. Equally enlightening as an overview of a career of developing prominence or as a perspective on the building of individual literary works, this volume not only allows the reader to hear the author’s internal dialogue on the hundreds of questions that must be turned and mulled during the planning and writing of a novel but, in an unplanned way, creates its own compelling narrative. These notebooks begin in “that distant summer in dazed Eisenhower America,” a month after Price’s graduation from Duke University, and conclude in “the raucous millennial present” with plans for his most recent novel, Roxanna Slade. Revealing the genesis and resolution of such works as The Surface of Earth, The Source of Light, Kate Vaiden, Clear Pictures, and Blue Calhoun, Learning a Trade offers a rich reward to those seeking to enter the guild of writers, as well as those intrigued by the process of the literary life or captured by the work of Reynolds Price.
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(Reynolds Price, novelist, poet, playwright and essayist, ...)
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 recovering from the Depression, living through World War II and then facing the economic and social changes of the 1950s. In closely linked chapters focusing on individuals, Price describes with compassion and honesty the white and black men and women who shaped his youth. The cast includes his young, devoted parents; a loving aunt; his younger brother Bill; childhood friends and enemies and the teachers who fostered and encouraged his love of writing. Clear Pictures is an autobiography set apart from others by the author's clarity of vision, the power of his characters and the richness of his writing.
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Price, Reynolds was born on February 1, 1933 in Macon, North Carolina, United States. Son of William Solomon and Elizabeth (Rodwell) Price.
AB summa cum laude (Angier Duke scholar), Duke, 1955. BLitt (Rhodes scholar), Merton College, Oxford University, England, 1958. Doctor of Letters, St. Andrews Presbyterian College, 1978.
Doctor of Letters, Wake Forest University, 1979. Doctor of Letters, Washington and Lee University, 1991., Davidson College, 1992.
Doctor of Letters, Elon College, University North Carolina, 2003.
Member faculty English, Duke U., since 1958; assistant professor, 1961-1968; associate professor, 1968-1972; professor, 1972-1977; James B. Duke professor, since 1977; acting chairman, 1983; writer in residence, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1965; writer in residence, U. Kansas, 1967, 69, 80; writer in residence, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 1971; Glasgow professor, Washington and Lee University, 1971; faculty, Salzburg Seminar, 1977.
(In Three Gospels, Reynolds Price returns to the central s...)
(Ecstatically reviewed and winner of the William Faulkner ...)
(Stories that contain a controlling effort - the attempt t...)
(Whether recounting events from his past or examining the ...)
(In this stunning and fully independent conclusion to A Gr...)
(Award-winning novelist Reynolds Price provides a vivid po...)
(A Palpable God: Thirty Stories Translated from the Bible ...)
(A major new work by Reynolds Price, Clear Pictures is a m...)
(Reynolds Price's long and distinguished career has been r...)
(Reynolds Price, novelist, poet, playwright and essayist, ...)
( From Reynolds Price, much acclaimed author of award-win...)
(This paperback edition of the acclaimed 1987 hardcover is...)
(A new collection of poetry from the author of Kate Vaiden...)
(Reynolds Price has long been one of America's most acclai...)
(Published in 1975, The Surface of Earth is the monumental...)
(Here is the second volume of A Great Circle, the highly a...)
("This collection of stories by the author of A LONG AND H...)
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Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Academy Arts and Letters, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Theta.