Ardent Spirits

Award-winning novelist Reynolds Price provides “the best of his winning lot” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times ) of memoirs—a vivid portrait of his life in the mid-1950s leading up to the publication of his brilliant first novel A Long and Happy Life. After two earlier autobiographical works— Clear Pictures and A Whole New Life —acclaimed writer Reynolds Price offers a full account of his life from the mid-1950s to the publication of his first novel in 1962. Oxford University and Britain—which