Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back by Reynolds Price
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Overview: In his third volume of memoir, Reynolds Price explores six crucial years of his life his departure from home in 1955 to spend three years as a student at Oxford University; then his return to North Carolina to begin his long career as a university teacher.
He gives often moving, and frequently comic, portraits of his great teachers in England such men as Lord David Cecil, Nevill Coghill, and W. H. Auden, who was the most distinguished English-language poet of those years. In London the poet and editor Stephen Spender becomes his first publisher and a generous friend who introduces him to rewarding figures like the essayist Cyril Connolly and George Orwell’s encouraging widow, Sonia. He spends rich months traveling in Britain and on the Continent; and above all he undergoes the first loves of his life one with an Oxford colleague whom he describes as a “romantic friend” and another with an older man.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir
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