Category Archives: Price, Reynolds
Price, Reynolds. Blue Calhoun. New York: Atheneum, 1992.
Blue Calhoun narrates the story of his adult years in Raleigh during the 1950s from the distance of old age. He begins his story in his mid-thirties, when he is working at a store that sells sheet music and instruments. … Continue reading
Filed under 1990-1999, 1992, Piedmont, Price, Reynolds, Wake
Reynolds Price. A Long and Happy Life. New York: Atheneum, 1962.
Price’s widely acclaimed first novel is the story of Rosacoke Mustian and her unshakable adoration for the rakish Wesley Beavers. Rosacoke’s patient and unselfish love appears wasted on Wesley, a motorcycle- riding skirt-chasing Navy veteran who simply seems too impatient … Continue reading
Filed under 1960-1969, 1962, Coastal Plain, Price, Reynolds, Warren
Reynolds Price. The Good Priest’s Son. New York: Scribner, 2005.
On September 11, 2001, Mabry Kincaid is flying home from a relaxing vacation in Italy when the terrorist attacks hit. Unable to return to his apartment in New York, he travels instead to his father’s house in the fictional town … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2005, Coastal Plain, Price, Reynolds
