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Editor's note: In a riveting exercise in biblical scholarship and storytelling, Reynolds Price translated the Greek texts of Mark and John, then wrote his own narrative in Three Gospels (1996). We asked Price, a prolific novelist (Kate Vaiden, the trilogy A Great Circle, Roxanna Slade and the forthcoming children's novel A Perfect Friend), to take another look at episodes in Jesus' life and craft a new Gospel based on the historical evidence and his reading of the Bible. He adds a chapter in which his erudition and imagination take a leap into an unexplored moment after Christ...
...wisdom. We get a sample of graffiti "art" from a bad poet named Dirk. We get a someone named Dale's take on the AIDS epidemic, "Basically, its a combination of a virus from a goat and a cow that creates the HIV virus." We get Suzanne, a Vaiden, Mississippi native, speaking on impending apocalypse: "I haven't seen any signs of the Antichrist. But it's kind of scary 'cause everything that happens in Revelations is happening right now. Like you can't tell the difference in the seasons...
...Esquire as "this lovely novel, meticulously observed, beautifully told" and has been continuously in print. In the 10 years since the onset of his illness, Price has written an additional 13 books -- novels, plays, memoirs, collections of stories, poems and essays. These works include his most acclaimed novel, Kate Vaiden, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the autobiography Clear Pictures and a trilogy of full-length plays, collectively titled New Music, which have been produced across the U.S. In April Price's The Collected Stories was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. At the same time...
Even before pain sharpened his vision -- he was stricken with cancer of the spine in 1984 at the age of 51 -- Price was a master at creating characters others could live through, particularly strong-willed women, such as the heroine in his 1986 novel Kate Vaiden. This time Price focuses on two young men to tell his hypnotic tale of loss and redemption: Bridge Boatner, a famous painter who looks back at the summer of 1954, when he was a counselor at a camp in North Carolina; and Raphael Noren, a prematurely wise, otherworldly 14-year...