· In the grand tradition of Southern novelists, Reynolds Price captures not just Kate's life but also the ambience of small-town families and a peculiar live-and-let-live attitude that comes with people being simultaneously crammed together and kept apart.5/5(5). Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price - 0ne of the most feisty, spellbinding and engaging heroines in modern fiction captures the essence of her own life in this con Released on: . · Kate Vaiden () by Reynolds Price is Kate’s first-person narrative of her life—a life riddled with incomparable tragedy. Kate Vaiden is representative of Price’s best work and reflects his many strengths as a writer. The novel is Price at his finest, writing a fictional autobiography/5(27).
Price's new novel again is enhanced by a Southern setting, and his art as a writer transforms a rather cliched tale of an orphaned girl who never attains the capacity for love into a compelling story. From the vantage point of middle age, narrator Kate Vaiden looks back at her life, shattered at the age of 11 by the suicide-murder of her parents. Kate Vaiden () by Reynolds Price is Kate's first-person narrative of her life—a life riddled with incomparable tragedy. Kate Vaiden is representative of Price's best work and reflects his many strengths as a writer. The novel is Price at his finest, writing a fictional autobiography. Kate Vaiden. had Reynolds Price's novel "Kate Vaiden" () in mind for a long time before finally being persuaded to read it by an online review written by a friend.. I proposed the book to my reading group as a possible choice among several other books each of which portrayed an individual American woman.
Kate Vaiden () is the 6th novel by American author Reynolds Price. The novel focuses on the life of a white woman from the American South who, after a teenage pregnancy, abandons her son shortly after giving birth to him and who does not get in touch with him for four decades. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price (, Mass Market) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!. Kate Vaiden () by Reynolds Price is Kate’s first-person narrative of her life—a life riddled with incomparable tragedy. Kate Vaiden is representative of Price’s best work and reflects his many strengths as a writer. The novel is Price at his finest, writing a fictional autobiography.
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