Reynolds Price - A long and happy life. Gift book bound in leather.

"A long and happy life"

What is the lesson of the story told by Reynolds Price? It is surprisingly simple and unsophisticated. And like the rest of the writer's works, it is distinguished by the integrity, deep, spring purity and freshness of the author's perception. Reynolds Price is characterized by a healthy attitude to the natural processes of life. The story "A Long and Happy Life" seems to be a reserved island in the modern literary stream, protected from the fashionable influences of existentialist despair, preaching the vanity and nonsense of being. Yes, happiness and joy are not enough in the surrounding world — Price knows this and expresses this truth without concealment. But he has his own attitude to the world: a person is born for a long and happy life, and kindness, the ability to respond to the call and eternal work should accompany him. This humanistic statement is the strength of the bright, poetic story "A Long and Happy Life" by the American writer Edward Reynolds Price.