Ecstatically reviewed and winner of the William Faulkner Award for a notable first novel when it was published in 1962, A Long and Happy Life launched the career of Reynolds Price, a writer considered to be "one of our greatest novelists" (Harper Lee). From...
"A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE deals with love - simply yet subtly, tenderly and movingly. The question it asks is, What happens when a necessary charitable gesture recoils? when its effect is the opposite of one's intention? Rosacoke Mustian is an unforgettable character - perhaps that...
On its initial publication in 1962, Eudora Welty said of A Long and Happy Life, "Reynolds Price is the most impressive new writer I've come across in a long time. His is a first-rate talent and we are lucky that he has started so young to write so well. Here is a fine novel."...