The Promise of Rest (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Reynolds Price
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism, Family literature, Epistolary literature
- Subjects: Parents and children, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Fathers, Death or dying, Loyalty, Separation, AIDS
- Locales: New York, North Carolina
This last work in Price's trilogy A Great Circle, of which The Surface of Earth and The Source of Light are the other components, is easily understood by those who have not read the first two novels in the trilogy. The characters in these three novels consist of four generations of the Mayfield family. In The Promise of Rest, the family is in deep trouble.
Hutch Mayfield is a bisexual English professor at Duke University. His wife has left him, and he is now living through the final days of his son's life. Wade Mayfield is dying from acquired...
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