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Reynolds Price

Scribner, 1999

This is a stunning, difficult, rewarding book of poetry.
For those who like Reynolds Price's prose, (and I count myself among them), be warned that the novels do not prepare one for the passion and depth of these poems. Some of the poems are religious; others are sexual, but almost all of them are startling in their intensity. I recommend this book with all my heart. But be aware that this book will require some work. Are you willing to buy a ...

Letter To A Man In The Fire: Does God Exist And Does He Care

6 reviews
Reynolds Price

Scribner, 2000

A Good Guide
As one who watched his own father, a retired minister, die a horrible, lingering death this past year after 15-year battles with cancer, heart disease and diabetes, I found Mr. Price's "Letter" to be both thought-provoking and helpful in my own search for answers to the questions posed in the book's title -- more helpful than my re-readings of Ecclesiastes and Job were. No one in this life, ...

A Survey of Christian Hymnody

2 reviews
William J. Reynolds, Milburn Price, ...

Hope Publishing Company (IL), 1991

excellent primer
This is an excellent survey of the history of western Christian hymnody from the earliest Biblical and historical references to modern times. Written in clear, non-esoteric language, this book can be enjoyed by church musician and lay person alike. Learn the historical, social and theological background of our hymn heritage. Though published by an unabashedly evangelical-friendly house, this book ...

A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing

12 reviews
Reynolds Price

Scribner, 2003

A TRUE STORY OF HOPE AND HEALING
This is a book about severe illness and recovery. It is a true story of hope and healing told without self-pity. Price writes of being faced with a diagnosis of severe cancer of the spine. "Some vital impulse spared me needing to reiterate the world's most frequent and pointless question in the face of disaster - Why? Why me? I never asked it; the only answer is of course: Why not?" In ...

A Sport and a Pastime: A Novel

31 reviews
James Salter

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006

Floating through words
I read this book a few years ago as a young, wide-eyed college student. Recently, with more experience (both literary and in life) I've come to it again and I'm still amazed by Salter's ability to put me into a trance. I can see a little bit of the Hemingway influence that people have pointed out (and I believe Salter himself has listed E.H. as an influence), but more than anything else, I see ...

Faggots

15 reviews
Larry Kramer

Grove Press, 2000

Unbridled Genius. One of the best
It is as if James Joyce were alive and queer in 1973 New York. Kramer is an author, dramatist and activist who helped found Act-Up. In this harsh, funny, terrifying, graphic, pornographic, brilliant, compelling book, he both honors and skewers the "gay scene" of the early '70s. This book is simply required (though at times difficult) reading.

Out on the Porch

4 reviews

Algonquin Books, 1992

Absolutely charming
I read excerpts from it each time I sit on our own front porch. The photograph's beckon me to visit the places where they were taken and the literary excerpts invite me to read the books from which they were borrowed. An absolutely charming book

Long and Happy Life

1 review
Reynolds Price

Scribner, 2007

Brilliant beginning of a distinguished career
This is Reynolds Price's first novel, and what a distinguished beginning it is. Wesley Beavers and Rosacoke Mustian are involved in a mating ritual, a courtship spanning six months (June to December), as they test each other out as a prelude to marriage. Rosacoke spends much of her female energy trying to get Wesley to commit himself emotionally to her, while he is satisfied merely with the ...

The Complete Stories of Truman Capote

11 reviews
Truman Capote

Vintage, 2005

extraordinary small jewels
Truman Capote was a brilliant, eccentric novelist and author of a shocking at the time of its publication, documentary fiction book "In Cold Blood". And although he is famous for these works, his short stories are equally captivating and original. They are small masterpieces, weird and magnetizing. The protagonists are usually strange children (in his other works, Capote did not pay much ...

Three Gospels

8 reviews
Reynolds Price

Scribner, 1997

Marvelous contribution to gospel scholarship; accessible to everyone
Price has done a beautiful thing here with his dedicated and solid work on the gospels. And thank Heaven he speaks up for John bar Zebedee being the author of his gospel. The commentary is deeply moving -- some of the best writing on the gospels I've seen anywhere. I'm grateful for this book. I return to it again and again. Of late, academic scholarship has done so much to tear the gospels to ...

Source of Light
Reynolds Price

Scribner, 1995

Here is the second volume of A Great Circle, the highly acclaimed Mayfield family trilogy, from one of America's literary treasures. Though a novel independent from The Surface of Earth, The Source of Light continues the saga of the Mayfield family, here focusing on Hutchins Mayfield, whose desire for self-knowledge removes him from his secure existence as a prep school teacher and takes him on a journey to Oxford and Italy to study and ...

Letter to a Godchild: Concerning Faith

2 reviews
Reynolds Price

Scribner, 2007

The Gospel According To Price
In this the third Reynolds Price book "concerning faith", he ostensibly is writing to a godchild, Harper Peck Voll, who is still a child. Price is aware that when the youngster grows up, he may have no interest in what the writer has to say on the subject. One suspects that Mr. Price is in the company of that rather large number of other writers who keep private journals and their letters to ...

Blue Calhoun: A Novel

8 reviews
Reynolds Price

Scribner, 2000

Blue Calhoun: looking for forgiveness & understanding
This beautifully written epistolary novel presents a problem of purpose and intention on the part of its main character, Bluford Calhoun: why in the world is he writing this 373-page letter to his teenaged granddaughter in which he describes to her in excruciating detail the consuming attraction he had for Luna, a teenaged girl half his age, 30 years before? Indeed, he's looking for understanding ...

Eudora Welty: Photographs

5 reviews

University Press of Mississippi, 1993

Incredibly Beautiful
This book is filled with beautiful photographs that show a profound respect for the dignity of each person photographed--rich or poor, black or white, old or young. Eudora Welty was truly a woman ahead of her time. As a current resident of Mississippi, the pictures have a special resonance.

A Serious Way of Wondering

6 reviews
Reynolds Price

Scribner, 2003

Poignant with No Ideological Axe to Grind!
Imagining what God or Jesus might say or do in any given situation is not new. Serious speculation of such is. Our nation's roadways are littered with signs bearing cutesy quotes attributed to "--God." Televangelists continue to tell us what God told them in private. Pop Christianity's commercialized 'What Would Jesus Do' (WWJD) movement conjures a moralistic/legalistic Jesus obsessed with strict ...

A Serious Way of Wondering: The Ethics of Jesus Imagined
Reynolds Price

Scribner, 2006

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 fierce debate and timeless relevance: the ethics of Jesus. In two succeeding lectures at the National Cathedral and at Auburn Seminary, Price continued to explore the apparently contradictory ethics that Jesus articulates in ...

The Good Priest's Son: A Novel

4 reviews
Reynolds Price

Scribner, 2006

another classic from one of our nations great authors
to start with,i'll admit i am more than a little prejudiced when it comes to the very talanted mr. reynolds price. his books as well as his characters are always compelling and are much anticipated by me, considering i read very few modern authors. what i like most of price's characters is though they are flawed,they have an obtainable redemption that they seem to either be chasing, or is ...

A Great Circle: The Mayfield Trilogy
Reynolds Price

Scribner, 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 character is born in 1815; the youngest in 1985. Though their aims and wanderings carry some of them to distant states and as far afield as Europe, both families are rooted in North Carolina and Virginia; and their eventually ...

Roxanna Slade: A Novel

18 reviews
Reynolds Price

Scribner, 1999

My favorite book from Reynolds Price
Although so many of his books are wonderful, this one of Price's spoke most clearly to my heart and soul.I felt that I was being given the privelige of sharing the life of a remarkable woman, although her life would seem ordinary to most - the life of one "average" woman living in the South, a woman often struggling with great hardship, trials and challenges. I've rarely read a novel which looks ...

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