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Roxanna Slade
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Born in rural North Carolina in 1900 and telling her tale in the present tense, Roxanna Slade relates the story of a woman whom her friends and family mostly consider a "saint." Toward the end of her life, however, she is at pains to explain why she's been both less and more than a mere saint. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
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The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
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Truman Capote (1924-1984), renowned for BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S and IN COLD BLOOD, was also a gifted short-story writer. In this welcome collection, the stories include the humorous and poignant "My Side of the Matter," the famously Southern Gothic "A Diamond Guitar", and Capote's wonderful memoirlike pieces "The Thanksgiving Visitor" and "A ...
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The Promise of Rest
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Raven Wade Mayfield is dying of AIDS in New York City, and his father, Hutch, brings him back home to North Carolina to die.
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Kate Vaiden
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Narrated by a woman who has lived a long and tumultuous life, this novel won the National Book Critics Circle Award when it was first published in 1986.
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A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing
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Reynolds Price writes frankly and without self-pity about his spinal cancer and the radiation treatments that arrested the growth but left him partially paralyzed.
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A Long & Happy Life
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This story of the star-crossed lovers Rosa and Wesley is set memorably in rural North Carolina, where Price himself grew up.
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Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back
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Award-winning novelist 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," which details his time as a Rhodes scholar, writer, and teacher. 20 b&w photos throughout.
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Three Gospels
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Reynolds Price
Using the best available Greek texts, Reynolds Price presents crisp new translations of Mark and John and adds a third new Gospel of his own composition, reflecting the spiritual needs of the contemporary world.
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A Serious Way of Wondering: The Ethics of Jesus Imagined
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Essayist and novelist Price examines the ethical implications of Jesus' teachings and his depictions in the Gospels. A SERIOUS WAY OF WONDERING also addresses the ongoing argument between the Jesus of history and the Jesus of Scripture, reminding readers that all evidence is suspect and demands a more reasoned approach than simply assessing the ...
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The Collected Poems
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Reynolds Price
Reynolds Price's poetry deals with such difficult and heartrending subjects as AIDS and his own struggle with spinal cancer and its attendant pain, but he also writes about the joys of daily life, friendship, and the pleasures and complexities of dreams.
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Good Hearts
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Rosa and Wesley are long-married and middle-aged, and Wesley's midlife crisis leads him to leave Rosa, while she stays home and writes to him in her diary--and endures her own trauma when a man breaks into her house and assaults her.
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Source of Light
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Hutchins Mayfield--a poet who has been living in England--returns to his southern home town because his father is dying. THE SOURCE OF LIGHT is the second installment in Price's Mayfield trilogy.
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Letter to a Man in the Fire: Does God Exist and Does He Care
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Price's letter to a young, terminally ill student who has read Price's memoir of his own bout with spinal cancer (A WHOLE NEW LIFE) and now questions what meaning faith in God can have in the face of human suffering.
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Clear Pictures: First Loves First Guides
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Reynolds Price
In this memoir, Price recalls his youth growing up in the North Carolina countryside, a setting familiar to anyone who has read his novels. He shares stories of the friends and family who surrounded him and influenced his later development as a writer.
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Blue Calhoun
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Blue Calhoun is a recovering alcoholic who has turned his life around--until he falls for a 16-year-old girl. Their passion, however, is not a temporary fling; it lasts for the next three decades. Blue's moral dilemma as he abandons his wife and daughter is at the heart of this unusual novel, in which the consequences of Blue's actions continue to ...
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Tongues of Angels
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Bridge Boatner, a painter and the hero of Reynolds Price's novel, is haunted by a death he feels responsible for when a young boy in his care at a summer camp, and with whom he had an intense relationship, died after being bitten by a rattlesnake.
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Foreseeable Future
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The three long stories here include "Back Before Day," "The Fare to the Moon," and the title story.
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Collected Stories of Reynolds Price
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Reynolds Price
An anthology by one of America's most distinguished writers features fifty short stories, some of which appeared in earlier collections.
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The Good Priest's Son
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In Reynolds Price's 14th novel, a widower named Mabry Kincaid returns to his North Carolina home town when his plane home from Italy is diverted away from New York City on 9/11. He has no idea whether his downtown New York apartment still exists or not. He is also in the first stages of multiple sclerosis. As he confronts his aged and ailing ...
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Surface of Earth
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Set in the plains of North Carolina and the coasts and hills of Virginia from 1903 to 1944, this novel chronicles the marriage of Forrest Mayfield and Eva Kendal, the hard birth of their son, Eva's return to her father after her mother's death, and the lives of two succeeding generations.
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Courtship, Valentine's Day, 1918
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Horton Foote, Reynolds Price (Illustrator)
This is the central volume in Horton Foote's remarkable nine-play Orphans' Home Cycle, in which the author chronicles the evolution of a family--the strengths that bind its members together and the strains that force them apart--and the cataclysmic changes in Southern society over twenty-six turbulent years.
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Out on the Porch
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Reynolds Price (Introduction by), Clifton Dowell (Editor)
The porch is a place where people gather and chat, read the evening paper, or nap after dinner. This volume incorporates vintage and contemporary photographs of porches along with passages from American novels and short stories from writers such as Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Pat Conroy, Kate Chopin, and ...
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Whole New Life
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Reynolds Price writes frankly and without self-pity about his spinal cancer and the radiation treatments that arrested the growth but left him partially paralyzed.
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Letter to a Godchild: Concerning Faith
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Reynolds Price
Reynolds Price, called "the best living religious writer" by "The Boston Globe," offers guidance to his godchild in a thoughtful exploration of the ways in which religious and spiritual beliefs add dimension to life. Photos throughout.
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Noble Norfleet
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When Noble Norfleet's unstable mother, Edith, finally cracks and murders his siblings in their beds, Noble has her committed to the state hospital, then continues on with his life, which includes a lecherous minister who tries to counsel him, a series of trysts with one of his high school teachers, a career in the Army as a medic, and an unusual ...
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