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...