Source of Light

Source of LightHere is the second volume of A Great Circle, the highly acclaimed Mayfield family trilogy, from one of America's literary treasures. Though a novel independent from The Surface of Earth, The Source of Light continues the saga of the Mayfield family, here focusing on Hutchins Mayfield, whose desire for self knowledge removes him from his secure existence as a prep school teacher and takes him on a journey to Oxford and Italy to study and write.

Here is the second volume of A Great Circle, the highly acclaimed Mayfield family trilogy, from one of America's literary treasures.
Though a novel independent from The Surface of Earth, The Source of Light continues the saga of the Mayfield family, here focusing on Hutchins Mayfield, whose desire for self-knowledge removes him from his secure existence as a prep school teacher and takes him on a journey to Oxford and Italy to study and write. Hutchins comes back home for a family crisis but ultimately returns to England, where he achieves a maturity that enables him to cope with commitments, abandonments, and the creation of an honest personal agenda.
In The Source of Light, Reynolds Price combines gravity and buoyancy, a mythic sense of the past with the mysteries of place, to forge an encompassing portrait of the strange and various world one travels through in the quest for self-fulfillmen

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 05/01/1995
ISBN: 9780684813387
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.14h x 5.18w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Library Journal 06/01/1995 pg. 172