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Learning a Trade : A Craftsman's Notebooks, 1955-1997
Learning a Trade A Craftsman's Notebooks 19551997 Author:Reynolds Price 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 style of his thoughts, Learning a Trade provides a window into this writer’s creative proce... more »ss 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 TheSurface of Earth, TheSource 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.
From reviews of the cloth edition:
?Learning a Trade is a rare contemporary example of [a published working journal], giving us an almost full documentary of the mind of this author.??Alexander Theroux, Wall Street Journal
?[W]hile Price pulls deep and often from his own memories, he never confuses a notebook with a journal or diary?forms he finds to be ?a repetitive bore at the end of a day.’ Rather, his life is ?all in the work,’ he once claimed. ?Not a secret spared.’??Renee Tursi, New York Times Book Review