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Reynolds Price

Reynolds Price was born in Macon, North Carolina in 1933. Educated at Duke University and, as a Rhodes Scholar, at Merton College, Oxford University, he has taught at Duke since 1958 and is now James B. Duke Professor of English.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... Read full bio

Reynolds Price's Books

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Ardent Spirits Leaving Home, Coming Back By: Reynolds Price
This edition: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publication date: May 12, 2009
In his third volume of memoir, Reynolds Price explores six crucial years of his life -- his departure from home in 1955 to spend three years as a student at Oxford University; then his return to North Carolina to begin his...
Other Formats: eBook
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A Perfect Friend
A Perfect Friend By: Reynolds Price
Illustrated by: Maurice Sendak
This edition: eBook, 176 pages
Publication date: June 19, 2008
Ages: 9 - 12
It feels like yesterday that Ben's mother died -- but it's really been a whole year. Still, he misses her so much the sadness keeps him awake at night. Lying in the dark, the only thing that helps Ben sleep is to think about...
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The Good Priest's Son
The Good Priest's Son A Novel By: Reynolds Price
This edition: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publication date: November 28, 2006
Flying home to New York after a much needed getaway abroad, private art conservator Mabry Kincaid learns that his downtown loft has been devastated by the World Trade Center attacks. Unable to resume his normal life, he flies...
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Letter to a Godchild
Letter to a Godchild Concerning Faith By: Reynolds Price
This edition: Hardcover, 112 pages
Publication date: May 9, 2006
In the year 2000 acclaimed author Reynolds Price became honorary godfather to Harper Peck Voll. As a christening gift, Price composed a letter to the child, one intended as a brief guide for Harper's spiritual future. The...
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The Collected Stories By: Reynolds Price
This edition: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
Publication date: February 3, 2004
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...
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WHOLE NEW LIFE
WHOLE NEW LIFE By: Reynolds Price
This edition: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publication date: May 20, 2003
Reynolds Price has long been one of America's most acclaimed and accomplished men of letters. In A Whole New Life he presents his most intimate story yet -- a memoir as compelling as any work of the imagination.In 1984, a...
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A Serious Way of Wondering By: Reynolds Price
This edition: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publication date: May 20, 2003
When renowned novelist and poet Reynolds Price, one of Christianity's most eloquent outlaws, was invited to deliver the annual Peabody Lecture at Harvard University Memorial Church in 2001, he chose to explore a subject of...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback, eBook
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A Perfect Friend
A Perfect Friend By: Reynolds Price
This edition: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publication date: June 4, 2002
A Moving Fable For Readers Of All Ages -- From National Book Critics Circle Award-Winning Author Reynolds PriceBen Barks loved elephants long before he'd seen one. He sometimes wondered how that love started....It's been a...
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Noble Norfleet
Noble Norfleet A Novel By: Reynolds Price
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: May 21, 2002
Having given voice in previous novels to the extraordinary Kate Vaiden, Blue Calhoun, and Roxanna Slade, Reynolds Price -- one of America's most respected men of letters -- adds Noble Norfleet to his gallery of compelling...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
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A Great Circle The Mayfield Trilogy By: Reynolds Price
This edition: Hardcover, 1200 pages
Publication date: October 2, 2001
Here, in a single volume for the first time, is the trilogy of novels in which Reynolds Price traces the paths of two families, the Mayfields and the Kendals, through nearly two centuries of American history -- the oldest...