The Collected Stories
$69.51
- Paperback
640 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2004
Summary
For more than four decades, Reynolds Price has been one of America’s most distinguished writers, with a career remarkable both for its virtuosity and for the variety of literary forms embraced. Though perhaps best known as a novelist and poet, Price here likewise demonstrates his mastery of the short story. These fifty stories include two early collections – The Names and Faces of Heroes and Permanent Errors – as well as more than two dozen stories that are gathered only in The Collected Sto…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780743244992 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0743244990 |
| Author: | Reynolds Price |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Scribner |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 640 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2004 |
| Weight: | 568g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 127mm x 38mm |
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The New York Times Book ReviewNobody writes so well about the joys and sorrows of the family. Nobody else can so deftly capture the lyric intensityof simple happiness.
The New York Times Book Review A spellbinding collection, a book to be treasured.Chicago Tribune Complex, compelling stories….What a pleasure to have in hand.The New York Times Book Review Nobody writes so well about the joys and sorrows of the family. Nobody else can so deftly capture the lyric intensity of simple happiness.The Boston Globe Price’s best stories are built to last.
About The Author
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, essays, and translations. Price is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and his work has been translated into seventeen languages.
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