Reynolds Price

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1973
  • Latest Book:
    May 2009
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Full Series List in Order

Mayfield Trilogy

1 - The Surface of the Earth (Feb-1989)
2 - The Source of Light (Mar-1981)
3 - Promise of Rest (May-1995)

Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • A Generous Man

  • A Long and Happy Life

    On its initial publication in 1962, Eudora Welty said of A Long and Happy Life, "Reynolds Price is the most impressive new writer I've come across in a long time. His is a first-rate talent and we are lucky that he has started so young to write so we...

  • The Surface of Earth

    Published in 1975, The Surface of Earth is the monumental narrative that charts the slow, inextricable twining of the Mayfield and Kendal families. Set in the plain of North Carolina and the coast and hills of Virginia from 1903 to 1944, it chronicle...

  • The Source of Light

    Mayfield Trilogy - 2

    Here is the second volume of A Great Circle, the highly acclaimed Mayfield family trilogy, from one of America's literary treasures. Though a novel independent from The Surface of Earth, The Source of Light continues the saga of the Mayfield family,...

  • Kate Vaiden

    In middle age, Kate Vaiden begins to yearn to see the son she abandoned when she was seventeen. But if she decides to seek him, will he understand her or even want to see her? As Kate questions herself and remembers her history, a story unfolds as tr...

  • Mustian

    The story of a North Carolina family focuses on the experiences of Rosacoke and her brother, Milo. A GENEROUS MAN Milo Mustain discovers glorious, various love, over the course of three incomparable days, taking him further than ever on the road to...

  • Love and Work

    Thomas Eborn, writer, husband and son, journeys through a maze of self-realization and despair when the death of his mother leads him to reexamine his past, present, and future. In four short days, a quickening spiral of accidents and crises lays bar...

  • The Surface of the Earth

    Mayfield Trilogy - 1

    Published in 1975, The Surface of Earth is the monumental narrative that charts the slow, inextricable twining of the Mayfield and Kendal families. Set in the plain of North Carolina and the coast and hills of Virginia from 1903 to 1944, it chronicle...

  • Good Hearts

    In this love story set in North Carolina and Tennessee, Wesley Beaver plans to abandon his thirty-year marriage to Rosacohe Mustian, but his decision forces them to confront questions of faith, commitment, and will, love and good heartedness...



  • The Names and Faces of Heroes

  • Back Before Day

  • Tongues of Angels

    Bridge Boatner has never forgotten the drama that unfolded at a summer camp in the Smoky Mountains in 1954. He was twenty-one then, art counselor at Camp Juniper, an environment lush with nature and buzzing with rowdy boys on the brink of manhood. In...

  • Home Made

    First edition, 526 numbered copies of which this is one of the first 200, which are signed by the author and photographer. Short stories by Reynolds Price, frontispiece, and 15 black-and-white photos by Roger Manley. vi , 54 pages. cloth. 8vo.....

  • Permanent Errors

    PERMANENT ERRORS First published early in Reynolds Price's career, here is a marvelous collection of stories revolving around those decisive moments in our lives when an act, a statement-or perhaps the withholding of either-determines a loss we will ...

  • The Use of Fire

  • Foreseeable Future

    A collection of three stories features "The Fare to the Moon," "Back before Day," and the title story, in which a soldier returns barely whole from the war and must find a reason to live. By the author of Blue Calhoun. Reprint....

  • Blue Calhoun

    "A powerful novel that magically combines symbolism, lyrical poetry and astonishing insight into the human soul."
    CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
    Bluford "Blue" Calhoun has been a drunk and unhappy. But he's survived it all with the help of his wife and teen...

  • Collected Stories of Reynolds Price

    For over three decades, Reynolds Price has been one of America's most distinguished writers, in a career that has been remarkable both for its virtuosity and for the variety of literary forms he has embraced. Now he shows himself as much a master of ...

  • Promise of Rest

    Mayfield Trilogy - 3

    In this stunning and fully independent conclusion to 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 -- has on his family.Wade Mayfiel...



  • Three Gospels

    Reynolds Price pays tribute to his literary love of translation in this adaptation of the Gospels of Mark and John, in addition to a gospel written by the esteemed novelist himself.Esteemed novelist, dramatist, scholar, essayist, and poet, Reynolds P...

  • Roxanna Slade

    Not since Reynolds Price's award-winning, bestselling novel Kate Vaiden has he told a woman's story in her own voice. Roxanna Slade is this woman.
    Roxanna begins her story on her twentieth birthday -- a day that introduces her to the harsh reali...

  • The Collected Poems

    The definitive anthology of Reynolds Price's accomplishments in poetry over four decades, The Collected Poems opens with a preface that discusses his beginnings, guides, and methods; it then includes his first three collections in their entirety -- V...

  • A Singular Family

    FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE ENTIRE MUSTIAN CYCLE IN ONE VOLUME, WITH A PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR Rosacoke Mustian initially "stood up, live from her first paragraph" in one of Reynolds Price's earliest short stories, "A Chain of Love," and Price made the be...

  • A Great Circle

  • Noble Norfleet

    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 befor...

  • A Perfect Friend

    A Moving Fable For Readers Of All Ages -- From National Book Critics Circle Award-Winning Author Reynolds PriceBen Barks loved elephants long before he'd seen one. He sometimes wondered how that love started....It's been a whole year since Ben's moth...

  • The Good Priest's Son

    Reynolds Price, one of America's most distinguished and honored writers, has produced such masterpieces as Noble Norfleet, Roxanna Slade, and Kate Vaiden, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Now in The Good Priest's Son, his fourteenth ...

  • Clear Pictures

    Reynolds Price, novelist, poet, playwright and essayist, author of the bestseller Kate Vaiden and the recent Roxanna Slade, is one of the most accomplished writers ever to come out of the South. He is an author rooted in its old life and ways; and th...

Award-Winning Books by Reynolds Price

Kate Vaiden
1986 National Book Critics Circle Award -- National Book Critics Circle Award


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Reynolds Price has published 28 books.

Reynolds Price does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Clear Pictures, was published in May 2009.

The first book by Reynolds Price, A Long and Happy Life, was published in August 1973.

Yes. Reynolds Price has 1 series.
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