A Singular Family Rosacoke and Her Kin

FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE ENTIRE MUSTIAN CYCLE IN ONE VOLUME, WITH A PREFACE BY THE AUTHORRosacoke Mustian initially "stood up, live from her first paragraph" in one of Reynolds Price's earliest short stories, "A Chain of Love," and Price made the beginning of her life with Wesley Beavers the subject of his dazzling first novel,A Long and Happy Life.Eventually, Price spent two more novels,A Generous ManandGood Hearts,with this single family, telling a story of devotion and endurance that is now the hallmark of one of the most illustrious careers in American letters.

Reynolds Price is the author of more than thirty books, including Roxanna Slade, Three Gospels and Kate Vaiden, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in the Piedmont countryside of North Carolina.