Reynolds Price - Books

Books

  • A Long and Happy Life (1962)
  • The Names and Faces of Heroes (1963)
  • A Generous Man (1966)
  • Love and Work (1968)
  • Permanent Errors (1970)
  • Things Themselves (1972)
  • The Surface of Earth (1975) (part one of the A Great Circle trilogy of novels aka The Mayfield Trilogy)
  • Early Dark (1977)
  • A Palpable God (1978) (translations from the Old and New Testaments, with an essay on the origins and aims of narrative)
  • The Source of Light (1981) (part two of the A Great Circle trilogy)
  • Vital Provisions (poems, 1982)
  • Mustian (1983)
  • Private Contentment (a 1984 television play)
  • Kate Vaiden (1986)
  • The Laws of Ice (poems, 1986)
  • A Common Room (1987)
  • Good Hearts (1988)
  • Clear Pictures (his 1989 memoir)
  • The Tongues of Angels (1990)
  • The Use of Fire (poems, 1990)
  • New Music (a 1990 trilogy of plays)
  • The Foreseeable Future (stories, 1991)
  • Blue Calhoun (1992)
  • Full Moon (a 1993 play)
  • The Collected Stories (1993)
  • A Whole New Life (1994 memoir describing his survival of spinal cancer that started in 1984 and left him a paraplegic)
  • The Promise of Rest (1995) (part three of the A Great Circle trilogy)
  • Three Gospels (1996) (contains Price's translations of the Gospels of Mark and John, with introductory essays)
  • The Collected Poems (1997)
  • Roxanna Slade (1998)
  • Letter to a Man in the Fire: Does God Exist and Does He Care? (an epistolary essay, 1999)
  • A Singular Family: Rosacoke and Her Kin (1999)
  • Feasting the Heart (2000) (52 of the essays he regularly broadcast on National Public Radio's news program All Things Considered )
  • Learning a Trade: A Craftsman's Notebooks, 1955-1997 (2000)
  • A Perfect Friend (Price's first children's book, 2000)
  • Noble Norfleet (2002)
  • A Serious Way of Wondering: The Ethics of Jesus Imagined (2003)
  • The Good Priest's Son (2005)
  • Letter to a Godchild : Concerning Faith (2006)
  • Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back (2009 memoir about his time at Oxford University and his first three years teaching at Duke University)

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