Ardent Spirits by Reynolds Price

Author:Reynolds Price
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner

Stephen Spender and RP on Hampstead Heath, January 1957. Matthew Spender, who was then twelve, took the picture in the midst of a long walk on the Heath one bright Sunday morning (Lizzie Spender, age six, was also with us, as was Dimitri, age three, the fine Italian cook’s son). It was my first visit to the Spender household and a happy one—as they’d all prove to be. Here Stephen looks half a head taller than I but he wasn’t. Maybe he was standing on a small hillock or a root of the tree behind us—he was six foot, two; I was five, ten and a half. Some of the excitement I read on my face in the picture results from the goodness of the visit; the remainder comes from the fact that I’d only just conceived the story that would—some five years later—become my first novel, A Long and Happy Life.

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