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Product Identifiers
PublisherScribner
ISBN-100689121474
ISBN-139780689121470
eBay Product ID (ePID)581543
Product Key Features
Book TitleCollected Stories of Reynolds Price
Number of Pages640 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral
Publication Year1993
GenreFiction, Literary Collections
AuthorReynolds Price
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight32.7 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN92-036807
Dewey Edition20
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Table Of ContentCONTENTS To the ReaderFull DayThe Warrior Princess OzimbaThe Enormous DoorA Told SecretWatching Her DieSerious NeedThe Company of the DeadGood and Bad DreamsA Sign of BloodRapid Eye MovementsTwiceWashed FeetSleeping and WakingMorning PlacesMichael EgertonThe Last NewsThe AnniversaryInvitationLate WarningsMy Parents, Winter 1926The Knowledge of My Mother's Coming DeathLife for LifeDesign for a TombEndless MountainsLong NightA New Stretch of WoodsThe Last of a Long CorrespondenceDeeds of LightWalking LessonsHis Final MotherThis WaitFool's EducationThe Happiness of OthersA Dog's DeathScarsWaiting at DachauThe Golden ChildTruth and LiesBreathToward HomeThe Names and Faces of HeroesNine Hours AloneNight and SilenceSummer GamesA Chain of LoveTwo Useful VisitsA Final AccountUncle GrantTroubled SleepGood NightAn Evening MealBess WatersAn Early Christmas
SynopsisFor 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 himself as much a master of the story as he is of the novel, in a volume that presents fifty stories, including two early collections --The Names and Faces of HeroesandPermanent Errors-- as well as more than two dozen new stories that have never been gathered together before.In his introduction, Mr. Price explains how, after the publication of his first two collections, he wrote no new stories for almost twenty years. "But once I needed -- for unknown reasons in a new and radically altered life -- to return to the story, it opened before me like a new chance....A collection like this then," he adds, "...will show a writer's preoccupations in ways the novel severely rations (novels are partly made for that purpose -- the release from self, long flights through the Other). John Keats's assertion that 'the excellence of every Art is its intensity' has served as a license and standard for me. From the start my stories were driven by heat -- passion and mystery, often passion for the mystery I've found in particular rooms and spaces and the people they threaten or shelter -- and my general aim is the transfer of a spell of keen witness, perceived by the reader as warranted in character and act."There is, indeed, much for the reader to "witness" here of passion and mystery, of character and act. And the variety of stories -- many of them set in Reynolds Price's native North Carolina, but a surprising number set in distant parts: Jerusalem in "An Early Christmas," the American Southwest in "Walking Lessons," and a number in Europe -- will astonish even his most devoted readers. In short,The Collected Storiesof Reynolds Price is as deeply rewarding a book as any he has yet published.