Reynolds Price (Identities and Issues in Literature)

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Born into the Depression-era South, Reynolds Price lived in poverty during his early childhood. The son of an alcoholic father and an only child until age eight, Price saw himself as someone on whom his parents leaned. His fiction contains numerous characters who make demands on those who are not sure that they can bear the needy ones’ weight. Each of his major novels represents an attempt to mediate the tension between the demands of the community and the needs of the self, which is a central theme of Southern literature. In his portrayal of the artist as...

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