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xiii, 625 pages ; 24 cm |
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Full day -- The warrior Princess Ozimba -- The enormous door -- A told secret -- Watching her die -- Serious need -- The company of the dead -- Good and bad dreams: A sign of blood ; Rapid eye movements ; Twice ; Washed feet ; Sleeping and waking ; Morning places -- Michael Egerton -- The last news -- The anniversary -- Invitation -- Late warnings: My parents, Winter 1926 ; The knowledge of my mother's coming death ; Life for life ; Design for a tomb -- Endless mountains -- Long night -- A new stretch of woods -- The last of a long correspondence -- Deeds of light -- Walking lessons -- His final mother -- This wait -- Fools education: The happiness of others ; A dog's death ; Scars ; Waiting at Dachau -- The golden child -- Truth and lies -- Breath -- Toward home -- The names and faces of heroes -- Nine hours alone -- Night and silence -- Summer games -- A chain of love -- Two useful visits -- A final account -- Uncle Grant -- Troubled sleep -- Good night -- An evening meal -- Bess Waters -- An early Christmas. |
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Also issued online. |
| Summary |
For 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 Heroes and Permanent Errors - as well as more than two dozen new stories that have never been gathered together before. |
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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 pre-occupations 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.". |
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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 Stories of Reynolds Price is as deeply rewarding a book as any he has yet published. |
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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North Carolina -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Short stories.
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Short stories
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Online version: Price, Reynolds, 1933- Short stories. Collected stories. New York : Atheneum ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993 (OCoLC)623523819 |
| ISBN |
0689121474 |
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9780689121470 |
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