A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing

Reynolds Price has long been one of America’s most acclaimed and accomplished men of letters—the author of novels, stories, poems, essays, plays, and now an unforgettable memoir about illness and healing in this more personal story, a narrative as intimate and compelling as any work of the imagination.

In 1984, a large cancer was discovered in Reynold Price’s spinal cord (“The tumor was pencil-thick and gray-colored, ten inches long from my neck-hair downward”). Here, for the first time, Pri...