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The promise of rest / Reynolds Price.
LIBRA - Special PS3566.R54 P76 1995b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011.
- Series:
- Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011. Great circle
- A Great circle
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mayfield family (Fictitious characters)--Fiction.
- Mayfield family (Fictitious characters).
- AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Fiction.
- AIDS (Disease).
- AIDS (Disease)--Patients.
- Fathers and sons--Fiction.
- Fathers and sons.
- North Carolina--Fiction.
- North Carolina.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 353 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Advance reader's copy.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, [1995]
- Summary:
- A Southern family's drama as a father witnesses the slow death from aids of his son. He hasn't seen him for years, the son having been forced by his black lover to choose between lover and family. As the parents are estranged the father tries to keep the mother away, wanting the son all to himself even in death.
- Notes:
- This book concludes the trilogy by R. Price which began with The surface of Earth (1975), and continued with The source of light (1982)
- OCLC:
- 904017655
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