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Tongues of Angels
Tongues of Angels: A Novel | Reynolds Price
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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 thirty-four 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 twenty-one-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.
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When I was in my early twenties an older friend and I LOVED this book: the way bonds build quickly and embed themselves in you, the places and experiences that shape you, The deep feelings of being an artist. The book didn‘t touch me quite as deeply this time and my reading experience was muddied by a more modern understanding of cultural appropriation but I‘m still glad to have re-read it.

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You got to live in the world that‘s here. Don‘t go try to ruin it. It‘ll just wreck you worse.