Critical essays on Reynolds Price /
Schiff, James A.,1958-
New York : G.K. Hall ; London : Prentice Hall International,
c1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reminiscences and tributes.  Reynolds Price : duke of writers / Anne Tyler -- Reynolds Price : a tribute / James Dickey -- Welcome to high culture / Fred Chappell -- Speaking of Reynolds Price / Toni Morrison, Stephen Spender, James Taylor and Kathryn Walker -- Reviews.  Country girl burdened with love [review of A long and happy life] / Granville Hicks -- Mantle of Faulkner? [review of A generous man] / John Wain -- [Review of Love and work] / Marston LaFrance -- The Reynolds Price who outgrew the Southern pastoral [review of Permanent errors] / Theodore Solotaroff -- A mastodon of a novel, by Reynolds Price [review of The surface of the earth] / Richard Gilman -- Letters to the editor [The surface of the earth] / Eudora Welty, Richard Gilman -- The surface of the earth / Allan Gurganus -- The surface of the earth : a pavement of good intentions / Fred Chappell -- Good books [review of A palpable God] / Anthony Burgess -- Portrait of the artist as son, lover, elegist [review of The source of light] / Joyce Carol Oates -- Price's new volume of 50 earns him his poet's spurs [review of Vital provisions] / Henry Taylor --
Travels with a dangerous woman [review of Kate Vaiden] / Rosellen Brown -- [Review of The laws of ice] / Robert B. Shaw -- Reynolds Price's words ring sure and true [review of A common room and A long and happy life] / Josephine Humphreys -- "A vast common room" : twenty-five years of essays and fiction by Reynolds Price [review of five Price books] / Jefferson Humphries -- The price of grace [review of A common room and Good hearts / Jay Tolson -- Portrait of an artist [review of The tongues of angels] / George Garrett -- Love and loss and the salve of time [review of New music] / Mel Gussow -- What he did, why he did it [review of Blue Calhoun] / Elizabeth Beverly -- The collected stories of Reynolds Price / Ron Carlson -- [Review of A whole new life] / Robert Coles -- End of the line [review of The promise of rest] / Jill McCorkle -- The greatest story ever, retold [review of Three gospels] / Robert Alter --
Essays.  A long and happy life : fragments of groundwork / Reynolds Price -- Love (and marriage) in A long and happy life / Allen Shepherd -- The "circle in the forest" : fictional space in Reynolds Price's A long and happy life / Simone Vauthier -- Reynolds Price's A long and happy life : style and the dynamics of power / Gloria G. Jones -- Price's Love and work : discovering the "perfect story" / Gary M. Ciuba -- A time to bolt : suicide, androgyny, and the dislocation of the self in Reynolds Price's Kate Vaiden / Joseph Dewey -- Lunging in the dark : blindness and vision, disppointment and aspiration in Reynolds Price's New music / R.C. Fuller -- Reynolds Price and religion : the "almost blindingly lucid" Palpable world / Lynn Veach Sadler -- The collected stories : a whole living world / Allen Shepherd -- Fathers and sons in the fiction of Reynolds Price : "a sense of crucial ambiguity" / James A. Schiff -- Men without women : communities of desire and race in A great cirle / Michael Kreyling -- From the Virgin Mary to Rosacoke / Doris Betts.
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