Midstream : an unfinished memoir / Reynolds Price.
| Author/creator | Price, Reynolds |
| Other author | Price, William S., Jr. (William Solomon), 1941- |
| Other author | Tyler, Anne. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | [1st ed.?]. |
| Publication Info | New York : Scribner, ©2012. |
| Description | xiv, 4 unnumbered pages, 170 pages : portraits ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Abstract | When Reynolds Price died in January 2011, he left behind one final work--200 candid, heartrending manuscript pages about a critical period in his young adulthood. Picking up where his previous memoir, Ardent Spirits, left off, the work documents a brief time from 1961 to 1965, perhaps the most leisurely of Price's life, but also one of enormous challenge and growth. Approaching thirty, Price writes, is to face the notion that "This is it. I'm now the person I'm likely to be ... from here to the end." Midstream, which begins when Price is twenty-eight, details the final youthful adventures of a man on the cusp of artistic acclaim. He chases a love to England, only to meet heartbreak. After other travels, he returns to the United States, where his first novel finds success. Concluding with his mother's death and Price's new endeavors--a second novel and a foray into Hollywood screenwriting--Midstream offers a poignant portrait of a man at the threshold of true adulthood, navigating new responsibilities and pleasures alike.--From publisher description. |
| General note | On front wrapper: Advance uncorrected proof -- Not for sale. |
| General note | On t.p. verso: First Scribner hardcover edition May 2012. |
| General note | Foreword by Anne Tyler; afterword by William Price. |
| Digital Bookplate | Bookplate for Catherine Billingsley |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Rare copy Gift of Catherine Billingsley 2018 |
| Genre/form | Biography. |
| LCCN | 2012007164 |
| ISBN | 9781439183496 |
| ISBN | 143918349X |
| ISBN | 9781451664324 (nonmerch) |
| ISBN | 145166432X (nonmerch) |
| ISBN | 9781439183557 |
| ISBN | 1439183554 |