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By Reynolds Price. 213 pp. New York, Atheneum Press, 1994. (Division of Macmillan, New York.) $20. ISBN 0-689-12197-0.

Grave illness (with its consequences) is a natural subject for a writer of fiction -- a chance to explore dramatically, psychologically, and morally a situation that will escape no one and therefore will potentially appeal to everyone. Reynolds Price, one of our most distinguished contemporary novelists (he is also a poet, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist) has chosen to tell us of illness not through the relatively detached strategy of storytelling, but by resort to autobiographical narration.

A decade ago, in April 1984, Price began to notice difficulty walking. A long-time professor of English at Duke University, which he attended, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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