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Zusatztext USA Today You won't hear many voices in your life that are as interesting as Kate Vaiden's. Informationen zum Autor Reynolds Price (19332011)was born in Macon, North Carolina. Educated at Duke University and, as a Rhodes Scholar, at Merton College, Oxford University, hetaught at Duke beginning in 1958 andwas theJames B. Duke Professor of English at the time of his death. His first short stories, and many later ones, are published in his Collected Stories. A Long and Happy Life was published in 1962 and won the William Faulkner Award for a best first novel. Kate Vaiden was published in 1986 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Good Priests Son in 2005 was his fourteenth novel. Among his thirty-seven volumes are further collections of fiction, poetry, plays, essays, and translations. Price is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and his work has been translated into seventeen languages. Klappentext Reissued to coincide with the publication of Price's new novel, "Roxanna Slade", this bestselling chronicle of a lifetime of joy and sadness--narrated by the feisty, irrepressible woman who lived it--"is a wise and wonderful story told by an artist at the peak of his powers" ("Chicago Tribune"). Zusammenfassung 0ne of the most feisty! spellbinding and engaging heroines in modern fiction captures the essence of her own life in this contemporary American odyssey born of red-clay land and small-town people. We meet Kate at a crucial moment in middle age when she begins to yearn to see the son she abandoned when she was seventeen. But if she decides to seek him! will he understand her? Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award! Kate Vaiden is a penetrating psychological portrait of an ordinary woman in extraordinary circumstances! a story as joyous! tragic! comic and compelling as life itself.
