Bøger af Reynolds Price

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. Includes photos of the author throughout.

Critically acclaimed author Reynolds Price creates an intimate and compelling rendering of his personal struggle with cancer and the resulting paralysis.

0ne of the most feisty, spellbinding and engaging heroines in modern fiction captures the essence of her own life in this contemporary American odyssey born of red-clay land and small-town people. We meet Kate at a crucial moment in middle age when she begins to yearn to see the son she abandoned when she was seventeen. But if she decides to seek him, will he understand her? Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Kate Vaiden is a penetrating psychological portrait of an ordinary woman in extraordinary circumstances, a story as joyous, tragic, comic and compelling as life itself.

The notebooks where Price worked out the characters, plots, and details of his novels.

Reynolds Price pays tribute to his literary love of translation in this adaptation of the Gospels of Mark and John, in addition to a gospel written by the esteemed novelist himself.Esteemed novelist, dramatist, scholar, essayist, and poet, Reynolds Price turns his attention back to a literary love he had discovered earlier in his career: translation. But for Reynolds that didn't mean abandoning his passion for writing original work; powerful and imaginative, Three Gospels offers eloquent translations of the Gospels of Mark and John as well as a gospel never before seen?an original one written by Price himself. These stunning triumphs of imagination tell and retell some of the most iconic ancient stories in Price's unparalleled literary voice.

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A collection of long stories sets some of the author's most unforgettable characters against a series of American landscapes, including World War II and football.

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What began as a response to a letter he received asking, "Does God exist and does He care?" became this book where Price explores the phenomenon of God's seeming desertions in the face of human suffering, and examples of healing and beauty against insurmountable odds.

In ROXANNA SLADE, Reynolds Price creates an unforgettable character possessed of intensely clear vision, forthright hungers, and immense vitality.

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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 1903 to 1944, it 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. The Surface of Earth is the work of one of America''s supreme masters of fiction, a journey across time and the poignantly evoked America of the first half of our century that explores the mysterious topography of the powers of love, home, and identity. In his evocation of the hungers, defeats, and rewards of individuals in moments of dark solitude and radiant union, Price has created an enduring literary testament to the range of human life.

The second collection of plays from award-winning novelist Reynolds Price. Delicate examinations of love, faith, family and race, written in the eloquent vernacular of Price's native North Carolina. Includes: Full Moon(1992), Early Dark (1977), and Private Contentment (1982). "A born playwright." --Time