{"product_id":"source-of-light-paperback","title":"Source of Light - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eReynolds Price\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is the second volume of \u003ci\u003eA Great Circle, \u003c\/i\u003e the highly acclaimed Mayfield family trilogy, from one of America's literary treasures. \u003cbr\u003e Though a novel independent from \u003ci\u003eThe Surface of Earth, The Source of Light\u003c\/i\u003e continues the saga of the Mayfield family, here focusing on Hutchins Mayfield, whose desire for self-knowledge removes him from his secure existence as a prep school teacher and takes him on a journey to Oxford and Italy to study and write. Hutchins comes back home for a family crisis but ultimately returns to England, where he achieves a maturity that enables him to cope with commitments, abandonments, and the creation of an honest personal agenda. \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Source of Light, \u003c\/i\u003e Reynolds Price combines gravity and buoyancy, a mythic sense of the past with the mysteries of place, to forge an encompassing portrait of the strange and various world one travels through in the quest for self-fulfillmen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eReynolds 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 \u003ci\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eA Long and Happy Life\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1962 and won the William Faulkner Award for a best first novel. \u003ci\u003eKate Vaiden\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1986 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. \u003ci\u003eThe Good Priest's Son\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.14 x 5.18 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759280324896,"sku":"9780684813387","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f879f7a4276d734d4e931960b1af1783.webp?v=1780147804","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/source-of-light-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}