A Whole New Life (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Reynolds Price
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1984-1993
- Setting: Durham, North Carolina
- Principal Characters: Reynolds Price, William (Bill) Price, Jr., Pia Tavernise Price, Allan Friedman, Patrick Logue, Jeffrey, Will Singer, Laird Ellis, Dan Voll
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Courage, Religion, Poetry or poets, Hope, Cancer, Surgery or surgeons, Medicine, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Colleges or universities, Tumors, Hypnotism
- Locales: Durham, NC
In this autobiographical volume, Reynolds Price focuses on a particular event that, beginning in 1984, changed his life. In that year, Kate Vaiden (1986), which was to win a National Book Critics’ Circle Award, was about one-third finished. Price was already a writer who had established a solid international reputation.
His first novel, A Long and Happy Life (1962), received the 1962 William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novels. More books followed with clockwork regularity: The Names and Faces of Heroes (1963), A Generous Man (1966),...
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