This is a novel of delight and sensitivity, of the pathos and possible splendor of individual self-realization. It begins with an autumn week in the life of Richard Ufford at thirteen, in school, anguished by those miseries and trivial immensities which in adolescence make the difference between belonging and exile. Like everybody, Richard inherits values which he must question. His father, a figure of power and style, is powerless to understand, much less guide, Richard. In a kind of underwater clarity the boy sees all the creatures of his surroundings, whether he loves them or dismisses them. With good humor and cold irony, he examines the values of his school, his church, his library, his hospital, his job, and his family. It's in the natural world of woods, streams, light and shade, rarely so beautifully described, that Richard is most himself. On the dial of love, his indicator moves from near-incest with his sister to his nature-wild and lyric love for Leslie, his true girl. F. D. Reeve encloses this drama within a story whose time limit is a single week, day by day. Each episode holds us fascinated, even as we reach forward to know its consequence in the full story. White Colors is a feat of literary virtuosity, a profound and loving presentment of life that places its author in the forefront of his literary generation.

White Colors

F.D. Reeve

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Twentieth-Century Russian Plays: An Anthology (Original Title: "An Anthology of Russian Plays: Volume II")

Norton& Co

Eyewitness account of Frost's 1962 visit to the Soviet UnionAt the height of the Cold War in 1962, the most American of poets travels to the Soviet Union to have it out with Premier Nikita Khrushchev. For the first time in paperback, Zephyr Press is proud to bring back into print F.D. Reeve's poignant account of Robert Frost's visit to the Soviet Union at the invitation of John F. Kennedy. Nearing the 30th anniversary of the trip, this travelogue details Frost's last voyage from America in his bid to bring East and West together.From Robert Frost in Russia Frost was hesitant both to accept the Russians' admiration and to acknowledge the status and the energy of the Russian intelligentsia. He was loath to separate intellectual speculation from politics. At breakfast this Friday morning, we had chatted about the evening before and had gone on to discuss the social function in Russia of the writer and of the intellectual. Frost refused to regard the Russian intellectuals differently from the American, most of whom he considered liberal sapheads, casuists, brain pinchers, men of small faith and less courage. A few days later, however, he had imperceptibly changed his point of view.Besides Frost's lucid and curmudgeonly critiques of American and Russian society in the midst of the Cold War, Reeve's memoir contains intimate portrayals of Russian poets such as Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Anna Akhmatova, as well as Frost's conversation with Khrushchev. Augmented by a new, retrospective introduction by the noted poet, scholar and translator, Reeve, the book also features endnotes to the events and people in the text.F.D. Reeve is the author of numerous books of translations, literary criticism, and original poetry, including Concrete Music, and most recently Moon and Other Failures. Reeve is a professor of Russian at Wesleyan University, and a recipient of the Golden Rose for lifelong poetic achievement.

Robert Frost in Russia

Biographies & Memoirs

Frank Reeve

Arts & Literature

Zephyr Press

<p>A feud, a fire, an affair. Cows in the pasture, men at the lunch counter, violets in an old cream bottle. This is Vermont life passionate, pastoral, pungent in F.D. Reeve s stunning new novella, Nathaniel Purple. The story is more than the sum of its parts. It is author F.D. Reeve s love poem to the state of Vermont, which forms a rich, vivid canvas for his intimate portrayal of village life. But human nature is a bit out of joint. Years of living on the bony land has led the village people to jealousies and forbidden couplings. Reeve draws us into his world through the sharp eyes of Nathaniel Purple, who, as the town's librarian, is the link to the world of books and rational thinking. He is also an everyman, a native Vermonter, able to embrace the town s practical justice. And he has a few secrets of his own. Nathaniel Purple celebrates the strength and timelessness of the natural world above the daily struggle and quotidian quarrels of everyday existence. People live out their destinies while the seasons turn.</p>

Nathaniel Purple

Literature & Fiction

Literary

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