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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.
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 Stories of Reynolds Price is as deeply rewarding a book as any he has yet published.
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CONTENTS
To the Reader
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
Fool's 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
ISBN: 9781439106051
ISBN-10: 1439106053
Published: 1st January 2000
Format: ePUB
Language: English
Number of Pages: 640
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Scribner
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