Letter to a Man in the Fire Reynolds Price Inscribed and Signed Hardcover Book

Description: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Notable Features:Hardcover with dust jacket. About the Author/Editor: Edward Reynolds Price (February 1, 1933 – January 20, 2011) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, and a professor of English at Duke University. Besides his interest in English literature, Price also had a lifelong passion for Biblical studies. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Born in Macon, North Carolina, Price was the first of two sons of William Solomon and Elizabeth Price. Both he and his mother had a tough time during childbirth, and family stories say that during this challenging moment, Will Price promised God he would stop drinking if his wife and son survived. Growing up during the Great Depression, Price’s family moved around rural North Carolina, living in towns like Henderson, Warrenton, Roxboro, and Asheboro. Instead of playing sports like other boys his age, Price developed a love for the arts, enjoying reading, writing, painting, and opera. He attended Broughton High School in Raleigh and later received a full scholarship to Duke University. At Duke, he continued to write, became the editor of the literary magazine The Archive, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year. He graduated summa cum laude in 1955. Afterward, Price earned a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Merton College, Oxford. There, he formed important friendships with notable poets like W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender, and he focused much of his studies on the English poet John Milton. After graduating with a B.Litt. in 1958, Price joined the English department at Duke University, where he taught courses on Milton, creative writing, and the Gospels for the rest of his career. While he was open with his close friends and colleagues about being gay, he didn’t publicly acknowledge it until the gay rights movement gained momentum, especially as friends began to suffer from AIDS. He preferred to identify as "queer" rather than gay. About the Book:In April 1997 Reynolds Price received an eloquent letter from reader a of his cancer memoir A Whole New Life. The correspondent, a young medical student diagnosed with cancer himself and facing his own mortality, asked the difficult questions above. The two began a long-distance correspondence, culminating in Price's thoughtful response, originally delivered as the Jack and Lewis Rudin Lecture at Auburn Theological Seminary, and now expanded onto the printed page as Letter to a Man in the Fire.Harvesting a variety of sources - diverse religious traditions, classical and modern texts, and a lifetime of personal experiences, interactions, and spiritual encounters Price meditates on God's participation in our fate. He explores the inexplicable and the inconsistent: the phenomenon of God's seeming desertions and absences in the face of human suffering and, conversely, examples of healing, restoration, and beauty against insurmountable odds. With candor and sympathy, Reynolds Price for nearly five decades a serious student of religion in general and the Gospels in particular offers the reader such a rich variety of tools to explore these questions as to place this work in the company of other great testaments of faith from St. Augustine to C. S. Lewis. Letter to a Man in the Fire moves as much as it educates. It is a rare combination of deep erudition, vivid prose, and profound humanity.Condition:This book is in good condition, dust cover is in good shape. Shipping and Return InformationI am happy to combine shipping. I ship daily for fast delivery.Books are wrapped in paper, bubble wrapped and most are mailed in a bubble mailer while others are mailed in boxes.Postcards and photographs are bagged and mailed in a rigid cardboard envelope.Magazines are bagged, boarded and mailed in a rigid flat lay cardboard envelope. Artwork is bagged and mailed flat between two pieces of cardboard. I offer free, no questions asked returns.

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