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Foreseeable Future

Foreseeable Future( )
Author: Price, Reynolds
ISBN:978-0-689-12110-4
Publication Date:May 1991
Publisher:Scribner
Imprint:Scribner
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $51.00
Book Description:

Reynolds Price's long and distinguished career has been remarkable both for his virtuosity and for the variety of forms he has embraced -- novels, stories, poems, essays, translations and plays. Now one of America's most respected and accomplished men of letters brings his formidable talents to bear on the long story, a form of novelistic scope and poetic intensity. In the three stories that comprise The Foreseeable Future, we encounter some of Price's most arresting and...
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Book Details
Pages:288
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.125 x 9.25 x 0.9 Inches
Book Weight:1.063 Pounds
Author Biography
Price, Reynolds (Author)
Reynolds Price (February 1, 1933 - January 20, 2011), born Edward Reynolds Price in Macon, North Carolina, was an American poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. After graduating from Duke University in 1955, he won a Rhodes scholarship to study at Oxford University.

Despite being living as a paraplegic after receiving radiation treatment for a spinal tumor since the mid-1980s, he produced approximately one book a year. His first novel, A Long and Happy Life (1962) won the William Faulkner Award. His other works include The Names and Faces of Heroes, Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides, A Whole New Life, and The Good Priest's Son. Kate Vaiden won the National Books Critics Circle Award. His plays have been produced on stage and on PBS's American Playhouse. He died due to complications of a heart attack on January 20, 2011 at the age of 77.

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