{"product_id":"ardent-spirits-leaving-home-coming-back-9780743291903","title":"Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back","description":"\u003cb\u003eAward-winning novelist Reynolds Price provides \"the best of his winning lot\" (Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) of memoirs--a vivid portrait of his life in the mid-1950s leading up to the publication of his brilliant first novel \u003ci\u003eA Long and Happy Life.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter two earlier autobiographical works--\u003ci\u003eClear Pictures \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Whole New Life\u003c\/i\u003e--acclaimed writer Reynolds Price offers a full account of his life from the mid-1950s to the publication of his first novel in 1962. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Oxford University and Britain--which had scarcely recovered from the severe demands of World War II--were places of enormous vitality for Price, both academic and personal. From spotting J. R. R. Tolkien on the street in Oxford to intimate dinners with W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender, young Price was welcomed into the company of the most respected intellectual and artistic circles. Fully entrenched in the culture of his era, Price unfailingly makes clear the connections between his experience and the great tradition of world literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In lucid and frequently witty prose, Price offers full access to six years in the early adulthood of a rich life--\"a gallery of portraits and sexual discovery\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Weekly Standard \u003c\/i\u003e) and part of the great train of human accomplishment in which Price so ardently believed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780743291903\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.24w x 1.25d","brand":"Reynolds Price","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43672954568885,"sku":"9780743291903","price":21.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f9ac9dd7-a581-4c33-b0e5-3d4209a1c2c4.jpg?v=1709052123","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/ardent-spirits-leaving-home-coming-back-9780743291903","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}