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Item Details
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THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE/THREE STORIES
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| By: |
Reynolds Price |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£32.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0689121105 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780689121104 |
| Publisher: |
SIMON & SCHUSTER |
| Pub. date: |
14 May, 1991 |
| Pages: |
268 |
| Description: |
A collection of long stories sets some of the author's most unforgettable characters against a series of American landscapes, including World War II and football. |
| Synopsis: |
Reynolds Price's long and distinguished career has been remarkable both for his virtuosity and for the variety of forms he has embraced -- novels, stories, poems, essays, translations and plays. Now one of America's most respected and accomplished men of letters brings his formidable talents to bear on the long story, a form of novelistic scope and poetic intensity. In the three stories that comprise The Foreseeable Future, we encounter some of Price's most arresting and moving characters, set against large vistas, namely the future, its banquet of promises and terrifying consequences. For Kayes Paschal in "The Fare to the Moon" this means leaving the black woman he loves -- and for whom he has already left his wife and son -- as he is called off to World War II ("Forget about Hitler and the wide Pacific, I could die this minute in full possession of all I hoped to find in life, whoever I hurt"). In the title story, for Whit Wade -- returning severely wounded from that same war and "dead" a long year afterwards -- it will mean unearthing his life again, and all its possibilities, among his family and the people he loves. And for Dean Walker -- loyal father and son, football coach and troubled young husband, the protagonist of "Back Before Day" -- the most important hours of his life till now will occur one hectic night before dawn breaks on a day that will be unlike any other in the knowledge and promise it brings. Generous, wise, rich with the details of very human lives, The Foreseeable Future is proof again of Reynolds Price's mastery and vision. |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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