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The Tongues of Angels

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The Tongues of Angels

By: Reynolds Price
Narrated by: Paul Fleschner
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"I'm as peaceful a man as you're likely to meet in America now, but this is about a death I may have caused. Not slowly over time by abuse or meanness but on a certain day and by ignorance, by plain lack of notice. Though it happened 34 years ago, and though I can't say it's haunted my mind that many nights lately, I suspect I can draw it out for you now, clear as this noon. I may need to try."

Set in a summer camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains during the deceptively tranquil 1950s, The Tongues of Angels is a story of the 21-year-old painting teacher, a superbly gifted boy, and their advance toward a startling fate. As the now-older man looks back at on that summer, he reflects on the meanings he thought he had learned on the threshold of manhood from the perspective of full maturity.

©1990 Reynolds Price (P)2016 Reynolds Price Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Summer
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Gorgeous, descriptive writing.

The book is evocative storytelling at its best. I highly recommend other books by Reynolds Price.

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Another brilliant book by Reynolds Price, a master storyteller. Simple well chosen language, which in content and mood.

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