{"product_id":"ardent-spirits-leaving-home-coming-back-paperback","title":"Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eReynolds Price\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward-winning novelist Reynolds Price provides \"the best of his winning lot\" (Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) of memoirs--a vivid portrait of his life in the mid-1950s leading up to the publication of his brilliant first novel \u003ci\u003eA Long and Happy Life.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter two earlier autobiographical works--\u003ci\u003eClear Pictures \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Whole New Life\u003c\/i\u003e--acclaimed writer Reynolds Price offers a full account of his life from the mid-1950s to the publication of his first novel in 1962. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Oxford University and Britain--which had scarcely recovered from the severe demands of World War II--were places of enormous vitality for Price, both academic and personal. From spotting J. R. R. Tolkien on the street in Oxford to intimate dinners with W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender, young Price was welcomed into the company of the most respected intellectual and artistic circles. Fully entrenched in the culture of his era, Price unfailingly makes clear the connections between his experience and the great tradition of world literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In lucid and frequently witty prose, Price offers full access to six years in the early adulthood of a rich life--\"a gallery of portraits and sexual discovery\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Weekly Standard \u003c\/i\u003e) and part of the great train of human accomplishment in which Price so ardently believed.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eReynolds Price (1933-2011) was a former Rhodes Scholar and taught at Duke beginning in 1958 and was the James B. Duke Professor of English. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eA Long and Happy Life\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1962 and won the William Faulkner Award. His sixth novel, \u003ci\u003eKate Vaiden\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1986 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The author of more than three dozen books, Price was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and his work has been translated into seventeen languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.25 x 9.5 x 6.24 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761470046496,"sku":"9780743291903","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7095fd2d6ad86d6b6c05bdb0cafdcbb1.webp?v=1780208355","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/ardent-spirits-leaving-home-coming-back-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}