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| Genre/Form: | Fiction |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Price, Reynolds, 1933- Collected stories. New York : Atheneum ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993 (OCoLC)623523819 |
| Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Reynolds Price |
| ISBN: | 0689121474 9780689121470 |
| OCLC Number: | 26810377 |
| Description: | xiii, 625 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Other Titles: | Warrior Princess Ozimba. Enormous door. Told secret. Company of the dead. Sign of blood. Last news. Anniversary. Knowledge of my mother's coming death. New stretch of woods. Last of a long correspondence. Happiness of others. Dog's death. Golden child. Names and faces of heroes. Chain of love. Final account. Evening meal. Early Christmas. Short stories |
| Responsibility: | Reynolds Price. |
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Abstract:
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.".
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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