August Snow

by Reynolds Price

Book by Reynolds Price, Price, Reynolds

Genres: Plays

61 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1991

About the author

Reynolds Price was born in Macon, North Carolina in 1933. Educated at Duke University and, as a Rhodes Scholar, at Merton College, Oxford University. He taught at Duke since 1958 and was James B. Duke Professor of English.

His first short stories, and many later ones, are published in his Collected Stories. A Long and Happy Life was published in 1962 and won the William Faulkner Award for a best first novel. Kate Vaiden was published in 1986 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Good Priest's Son in 2005 was his fourteenth novel. Among his thirty-seven volumes are further collections of fiction, poetry, plays, essays, and translations. Price was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and his work has been translated into seventeen languages.

Photo courtesy of Reynolds Price's author page on Amazon.com

Reviews

[Sunshine · Rating 1 out of 5]

Rating: 1/5
Recommendation: Not worth a read

I really hope this play is a better watch than a read. I could hardly finish it. I found it to be boring and it felt rather tedious to read. I didn't care about any of the characters, and I just never became invested in the story at all. Personally, it was one of the worst plays I've read in a long while.

[Chambers Stevens · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm a bigger fan of Mr. Reynolds prose than his plays.