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The promise of rest

Author: Reynolds Price
Publisher: New York : Scribner, ©1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A Southern family's drama as a father witnesses the slow death from aids of his son. He hasn't seen him for years, the son having been forced by his black lover to choose between lover and family. As the parents are estranged the father tries to keep the mother away, wanting the son all to himself even in death.
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Genre/Form: Domestic fiction
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Price, Reynolds, 1933-
Promise of rest.
New York : Scribner, c1995
(OCoLC)623723984
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Reynolds Price
ISBN: 0684801493 9780684801490
OCLC Number: 31753894
Notes: This book concludes the trilogy by R. Price which began with The surface of Earth (1975), and continued with The source of light (1982).
Description: 353 p. ; 25 cm.
Responsibility: Reynolds Price.

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A Southern family's drama as a father witnesses the slow death from aids of his son. He hasn't seen him for years, the son having been forced by his black lover to choose between lover and family. As the parents are estranged the father tries to keep the mother away, wanting the son all to himself even in death.

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