Kate Vaiden (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Reynolds Price
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Character study
- Subjects: Child rearing or parenting, Mothers, Parents and children, Murder or homicide, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Alienation, Abandoned children, Guilt, Pregnancy, Cancer, Adultery, Abandonment
- Locales: Virginia, South (U.S.), North Carolina
Kate Vaiden is an unusual book in that it has its base in a sensationalism that is almost melodramatic, yet its author has the skill to elevate the narrative above the level of sheer sensationalism into the realm of serious literature that deals with and presents universal truths. Before she was eighteen, Kate Vaiden, now a fifty-seven-year-old woman, had survived the murder of her mother by her father and his suicide, the accidental death of her favorite lover, the suicides of two of her lovers, the illegitimate birth of a son, and the anguish of giving him up. The basic story...
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