Description: An award-winning and prolific author of novels, plays, poems, stories, and essays, Reynolds Price has kept a working journal of his writing life for more than forty years. Published in a unique format that allows for the progressively layered manner of his thoughts, Learning a Trade provides a window into this writer's creative process and craftsman's sensibilities. Instead of personal memoir or a collection of literary fragments, Learning a Trade presents what Price has called the "ongoing minutes" of his effort to learn his craft. Revealing the genesis and resolution of such works as The Surface of Earth, The Source of Light, Kate Vaiden, Clear Pictures, and Blue Calhoun, this book offers a rich reward to those seeking to enter the guild of writers, as well as those intrigued by the process of the literary life or fans of the work of Reynolds Price.

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