The Foreseeable Future (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Reynolds Price
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Stories
- Principal Characters: Kayes Paschal, Whit Wade, Dean Walker
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Language or languages
Reynolds Price is wary of labels, especially the ones naming him exclusively a “Southern” writer. He would probably be just as uneasy with the description “novelist,” for he is also a poet, an essayist, a playwright, a screenwriter, a professor, and a translator. He is a true man of letters for whom literature in its various guises offers the opportunity to assume the camouflage of form. For the occasion of his latest work, The Foreseeable Future, he assumes the mufti of a short-story writer, but, untrue to form, his stories are not “short”; nor are they long enough...
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