The Promise of Rest - by Reynolds Price (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this stunning conclusion to his acclaimed Mayfield family trilogy, A Great Circle, Reynolds Price tells the complex, moving story of a man's return home to die of AIDS and of the unexpected effect that his arrival--and his death--have on his family.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>In this stunning and fully independent conclusion to <i>A Great Circle, </i> Reynolds Price tells the complex, moving story of a man's return home to die of AIDS and of the unexpected effect that his arrival -- and his death -- has on his family. <br> Wade Mayfield's parents are separated, but for the remaining months of his life they and their friends come together to care for Wade with the love they can muster. They are unprepared, however, for the astonishing mystery Wade has prepared to reveal once he is gone -- a mystery that initiates the possible reunion of his parents and promises to continue the proud traditions of a complex, multiracial family<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Reynolds Price (1933-2011) was born in Macon, North Carolina. Educated at Duke University and, as a Rhodes Scholar, at Merton College, Oxford University, he taught at Duke beginning in 1958 and was the James B. Duke Professor of English at the time of his death. His first short stories, and many later ones, are published in his <i>Collected Stories</i>. <i>A Long and Happy Life</i> was published in 1962 and won the William Faulkner Award for a best first novel. <i>Kate Vaiden</i> was published in 1986 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. <i>The Good Priest's Son</i> 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.
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