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Noble Norfleet

A Novel

Noble Norfleet( )
Author: Price, Reynolds
ISBN:978-0-7432-0418-7
Publication Date:Jun 2003
Publisher:Scribner
Imprint:Scribner
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $21.95
Book Description:

Having given voice in previous novels to the extraordinary Kate Vaiden, Blue Calhoun, and Roxanna Slade, Reynolds Price -- one of America's most respected men of letters -- adds Noble Norfleet to his gallery of compelling portraits. A few days before Noble Norfleet's eighteenth birthday, his family suffers a violent catastrophe. The sole survivor, Noble throws himself into a reckless affair with his Spanish teacher, whose husband is fighting in Vietnam. When Noble graduates, he...
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Book Details
Pages:320
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / War & Military
Fiction / Psychological
Fiction / Family Life / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.5 x 0.8 Inches
Book Weight:0.744 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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