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In the spring of 1993, after nine years as an architect in New York City, Wade Mayfield returns to North Carolina. This is no ordinary move; for Wade, at the age of thirty-three, has come back to his father's house to die of AIDS. Wade's parents have recently separated; but for the remaining months of their only child's life, they and their friends come together in steady care for Wade and in the knowledge and sustenance they gain from his patience and his undaunted determination to die as himself. When death comes, they are slowly amazed to learn of the ongoing mystery Wade has arranged to reveal after his depature--a mystery that promises to continue the proud vitality of a family that had seemed destined for extinction. A powerful exploration of such timeless matters as love, family loyalty and suffering, race, freedom, and duty, "The Promise of Rest" concludes Reynolds Price's epic Mayfield family trilogy with a passionate embrace of life in a world that promises to outlast us all.
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It is 1993 and Wade Mayfield is leaving New York City to return to his family's home in North Carolina where he will be cared for and tended by his parents, Ann and Hutch, as he dies of AIDS. In The Promise of Rest, death is never far away, and Ann and Hutch, now separated, must come together to care for their son in the last days of his life. Wade's quiet, yet stunning courage and strength cannot help but inspire them. After Wade's death, Ann and Hutch are astonished to discover Wade's secret -- a secret which leaves open the life-affirming possibility of continuing the Mayfield family, which seemed to have all but come to an end with Wade's death.
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The Promise of Rest continues the unforgettable saga of the Mayfield family, chronicling the love among its members, their suffering, as well as their loyalty and duty to one another, while exploring the subjects of race and homosexuality. It is a rare and poignant novel about love and devotion, about death and dying, about dark times and the life that they can yield. With The Promise of Rest, Reynolds Price gives us another novel of tremendous emotional depth and extraordinary truth.
Reynolds Price was born in Macon, North Carolina in 1933. Educated in the public schools of his native state, he earned an A.B. summa cum laude from Duke University. In 1955 he traveled as a Rhodes Scholar to Merton College, Oxford University to study English literature. After three years and the B. Litt. degree, he returned to Duke shwere he continues in his fourth decade of teaching. The author of more than two dozen novels, he has also published volumes of poems, plays, essays, translations, and two volumes of a memoir. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and his books have appeared in sixteen languages.
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- PublisherSan Val
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 141771963X
- ISBN 13 9781417719631
- BindingHardcover
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