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Reynolds Price

Reynolds Price (1933-2011) was born in Macon, North Carolina. Educated at Duke University and, as a Rhodes Scholar, at Merton College, Oxford University, he taught at Duke beginning in 1958 and was the James B. Duke Professor of English at the time of his death. His first short stories, and many later ones, are published in his Collected Stories. A Long and Happy Life was published in 1962 and won the William Faulkner Award for a best first novel. Kate Vaiden was published in 1986 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Good Priest's Son in 2005 was his fourteenth novel. Among his thirty-seven volumes are further collections of fiction, poetry, plays,... Read full bio

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Three Gospels By: Reynolds Price

This edition: eBook, 288 pages

Publication date: June 15, 2010

A 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 which combine to form that crucial document of Western civilization we call the...

A Perfect Friend By: Reynolds Price

Illustrated by: Maurice Sendak

This edition: eBook, 176 pages

Publication date: June 1, 2002

Ages: 9 - 12

A Moving Fable For Readers Of All Ages -- From National Book Critics Circle Award-Winning Author Reynolds Price Ben Barks loved elephants long before he'd seen one. He sometimes wondered how that love started.... It's been a...

Letter to a Man in the Fire Does God Exist And Does He Care By: Reynolds Price

This edition: eBook, 112 pages

Publication date: October 17, 2000

Does 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 correspondent, a young medical student diagnosed with cancer himself and...

Roxanna Slade A NOVEL By: Reynolds Price

This edition: Trade Paperback, 304 pages

Publication date: July 17, 2000

Born in rural North Carolina in 1900 and telling her tale in the present, 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...

The Collected Poems By: Reynolds Price

This edition: eBook, 496 pages

Publication date: April 12, 1999

This volume presents the full range of Reynolds Price's poetic accomplishment over the past thirty-six years. His first three collections are brought together in their entirety; and a masterful new collection, The...

Surface of Earth By: Reynolds Price

This edition: Trade Paperback, 512 pages

Publication date: July 8, 1997

Published in 1975, The Surface of Earth is the monumental narrative that charts the slow, inextricable twining of the Mayfield and Kendal families. Set in the plain of North Carolina and the coast and hills of Virginia from...

Promise of Rest By: Reynolds Price

This edition: Trade Paperback, 368 pages

Publication date: July 8, 1997

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...

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Source of Light By: Reynolds Price

This edition: Trade Paperback, 336 pages

Publication date: July 8, 1997

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...

Collected Stories of Reynolds Price By: Reynolds Price

This edition: eBook, 640 pages

Publication date: June 21, 1993

For over three decades, Reynolds Price has been one of America's most distinguished writers, in a career that has been remarkable both for its virtuosity and for the variety of literary forms he has embraced. Now he shows...