In this celebrated novel, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison created a new way of rendering the contradictory nuances of black life in America. Its earthy poetic language and striking use of folklore and myth established Morrison as a major voice in contemporary fiction. "Song of Solomon" begi[...]
It feels like yesterday that Ben's mother died -- but it's really been a whole year. Still, he misses her so much the sadness keeps him awake at night. Lying in the dark, the only thing that helps Ben sleep is to think about elephants, those magnificent creatures that his mother loved too. Sooner or[...]
Whether recounting events from his past or examining the details of his current experience as a writer, teacher, traveler, and general witness of the world, Reynolds Price shows us how a writer finds meaning in the day-to-day details of living. In this engaging collection of fifty-two personal essay[...]
The distinguished novelist offers an account of his battle with cancer of the spine, describing his struggle to come to terms with the disease, its treatment, and his determination to get on with his life. Reprint.[...]
For more than four decades, Reynolds Price has been one of America's most distinguished writers, with a career remarkable both for its virtuosity and for the variety of literary forms embraced. Though perhaps best known as a novelist and poet, Price here likewise demonstrates his mastery of the shor[...]
His New York-bound flight diverted to Nova Scotia during the September 11 attacks, Mabry Kincaid makes his way to the side of his retired Episcopal priest father, a reunion that is challenged by painful world events, his father's opinionated caregiver, and his own serious illness. Reprint. 25,000 fi[...]
After two earlier autobiographical works--"Clear Pictures "and "A Whole New Life"--acclaimed writer Reynolds Price offers a full account of his life from the mid-1950s to the publication of his first novel in 1962.
Oxford University and Britain--which had scarcely recovered from the severe deman[...]
Originally published in 1978, this bestselling novel is a fierce satire of the gay ghetto and a touching story of one man's desperate search for love there. Kramer was the co-founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis and ACT UP.[...]
From Reynolds Price, much acclaimed author of award-winning novels, plays, poems, stories, and essays, comes a work that is unique among contemporary writers of American literature. For more than forty years, Price has kept a working journal of his writing life. Now published for the first time, Lea[...]
A definitive compendium of all the short fiction of the acclaimed author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's includes such famed pieces as "Children on Their Birthdays" and "A Christmas Memory," as well as such lesser-known tales as "Master Misery" and "Jug of Silver." Reprint. 25,000 first[...]