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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...
Readers can be persuaded to care, however, if the memoirist is Reynolds Price (The Source of Light, Kate Vaiden), one of a few writers whose full- length fictions do honor to the term regional novel. Price's region is central North Carolina, where he has lived for most of his 56 years. His father Will was a traveling salesman who fought a lifelong battle against alcohol and financial insecurity. His mother Elizabeth was one of the genteel metal magnolias who, despite generosity to their black servants, Price notes, were the "chief conveyors" of the racist code that cursed...
Deafening Chorus. Besides Surgeon Sanger, now a lieutenant colonel, there is medium-sized, thin Lieut. Colonel Thomas Preston White, who heads the medical staff, Lieut. Colonel George T. Wood, executive officer, Dentist Vaiden Kendrick, Charlotte's ace toothpuller (there was a rush of dental procrastinators to his chair when he announced he was leaving Charlotte). Charlotte also contributed several other doctors, two business managers-Captain Stanton Pickens, who used to work for the Coca-Cola Co. and "Buck" Medearis, manager of a laundry-and many of the nurses. Once when the Evac was stuck on a siding waiting...
...that in the long run U. S. readers, though they may be taken in by shoddy, like honest homespun better. Readers who passed by The Forge and The Store will do well to retrace their steps, but Unfinished Cathedral stands foursquare by itself, needs no synopsis-guidebook. Col. Miltiades Vaiden, son of a poor blacksmith. Confederate soldier, unreconstructed rebel, has become in his old age the big man of his Alabama town. Banker and pillar of the church, he has left far behind him his wild youth and the ugly rumors that attended his rise to fortune. He is happy...
...tenants try to bully him. But by means of his extraordinary pertinacity he wins at least respite. Handback. on discovering how Gracie took part against him. commits suicide. The force behind Miltiades' tragic story has, willy-nilly, affected everybody in Florence ? Landers, the second- sighted postmaster; Toussaint, a Vaiden octoroon; Miltiades' nephew, particularly a young highly Jerry Catlin, attractive character whose undeveloped capabilities leave the book with an aftermath to be harvested, presumably, in the closing novel of Author Stribling's cycle...