Roxanna Slade A Novel

Not since Reynolds Price's award-winning, bestselling novelKate Vaidenhas he told a woman's story in her own voice. Roxanna Slade is this woman.Roxanna begins her story on her twentieth birthday -- a day that introduces her to the harsh realities of adulthood and changes the course of her life forever. From this day on, Roxanna is quick to share with the reader the intimate details of ninety years of life in North Carolina. Her beguiling tale is one that boldly reflects the high and low moments in the development of the modern South and the nation as well as the inner strength of a woman possessed of a piercingly clear vision, forthright hungers and immense vitality.

Reynolds Price is the author of more than thirty books, including The Promise of Rest, 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.