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Feasting the heart : fifty-two commentaries for the air / Reynolds Price.
LIBRA - Special PS3566.R54 F4 2000b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011.
- Price, Reynolds.
- Genre:
- Proofs (Printing) -- North Carolina -- 20th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 179 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Advance uncorrected proofs.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, [2000]
- Summary:
- This insightful collection of controversial and personal essays from one of America's favorite writers were originally broadcast to great acclaim on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."
- Contents:
- Preface
- A Christmas in Rome
- Book tour
- The last great weeper
- Birthplace
- James Dean, still here
- The ghost-writer in the cellar
- Oral history
- A hole in the earth
- Teachers
- Wheelchair travel
- A shallow past
- Eye level to a wheelchair
- Private worship
- Gone with the wind and its Scarlett
- Native orphans
- My tolerance problem
- A single death among many
- The mad inventor
- Summer vacation
- Full day
- Lucky catches
- Casting bread
- MRI time
- Time-ridden
- Father and history
- The lucky child's Christmas
- Summer on the deep
- A standing reader
- A gallop down the homestretch
- Portable music
- A motto
- The Gazelle of Israel
- The memory drench : World War II
- Forty and counting
- Crossing genders
- Being reviewed
- England in the fifties
- The stage, years ago
- On the stone
- My ghost stories
- The old man in here with me
- Dolls in a man's life
- The great imagination heist
- Joke-telling lessons
- What my parents didn't tell me
- The commonest demon
- With Ida
- A perfect dinner
- Keeping an eye out
- The single corps
- Eloquent letters
- A premature farewell.
- Notes:
- Originally broadcast on the National Public Radio program All things considered.
- OCLC:
- 925522843
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