The Source of Light

Price, Reynolds

ISBN 10: 0689111363 / ISBN 13: 9780689111365

Published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1981

About this Item

Signed by author, otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket worn. Binding firm. Seller Inventory # 117262

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Source of Light

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Publication Date: 1981

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition.

Book Type: Book

About this title

Synopsis:

Here is the second volume of A Great Circle, the highly acclaimed Mayfield family trilogy, from one of America's literary treasures. Though a novel independent from The Surface of Earth, The Source of Light continues the saga of the Mayfield family, here focusing on Hutchins Mayfield, whose desire for self-knowledge removes him from his secure existence as a prep school teacher and takes him on a journey to Oxford and Italy to study and write. Hutchins comes back home for a family crisis but ultimately * to England, where he achieves a maturity that enables him to cope with commitments, abandonments, and the creation of an honest personal agenda. In The Source of Light, Reynolds Price combines gravity and buoyancy, a mythic sense of the past with the mysteries of place, to forge an encompassing portrait of the strange and various world one travels through in the quest for self-fulfillment.

Review:

"The Chicago Tribune" Price's scenes are rich with detail and glow evocatively in the memory; his language is that of a poet who has found his theme and exalts in unfolding it for you.

"The Dallas Morning News"

Strong, disturbing....It is a book to be read, considered, pondered.

"The Chicago Tribune"

Price's scenes are rich with detail and glow evocatively in the memory; his language is that of a poet who has found his theme and exalts in unfolding it for you.

"The Dallas Morning News"Strong, disturbing....It is a book to be read, considered, pondered.

"The Chicago Tribune"Price's scenes are rich with detail and glow evocatively in the memory; his language is that of a poet who has found his theme and exalts in unfolding it for you.

"The Dallas Morning News" Strong, disturbing....It is a book to be read, considered, pondered.

The Dallas Morning News Strong, disturbing....It is a book to be read, considered, pondered.

The Chicago Tribune Price's scenes are rich with detail and glow evocatively in the memory; his language is that of a poet who has found his theme and exalts in unfolding it for you.