Permanent Errors

PERMANENT ERRORS First published early in Reynolds Price's career, here is a marvelous collection of stories revolving around those decisive moments in our lives when an act, a statement-or perhaps the withholding of either-determines a loss we will have to understand fully to overcome. A young man studying in England forces the end of a love affair-with mixed feelings; another couple's future rests on a trip to Dachau; a loving son contemplates his own relationship to his mother's death. And, in the final piece, a remarkable novella, a grieving husband journeys to a Navajo reservation and finds in a mysterious young woman he meets there an answer to his own life.