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• Nathan Coulter

  a Novel

  Berry, Wendell, 1934-

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  Nathan Coulter , Wendell Berry's first book, was published in 1960 when he was twenty-seven. In his first novel, the author presents his readers with their first introduction to what would become Berry's life's work, chronicling through fiction a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jayber Crow

  a Novel

  Berry, Wendell, 1934-

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  "This is a book about Heaven," says Jayber Crow, "but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell." It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the town's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The World-ending Fire

  the Essential Wendell Berry

  Berry, Wendell, 1934-

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  The writings gathered in The World-Ending Fire are the unique product of a life spent farming the fields of rural Kentucky with mules and horses, and of the rich, intimate knowledge of the land cultivated by this work. These are essays written in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hannah Coulter

  a Novel

  Berry, Wendell, 1934-

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  Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman character in its telling. Hannah, the now-elderly narrator, recounts the love she has for the land and for her community. She remembers each of her two…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Remembering

  a Novel

  Berry, Wendell, 1934-

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  It is 1976 and Andy Catlett, farmer and agricultural journalist, alone in San Francisco, is walking the streets at dawn. In the eight months since losing his right hand to a corn-picking machine, he has lost his sense of place. The abrasiveness of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Marce Catlett

  the Force of a Story : a Port William Novel

  Berry, Wendell, 1934-

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  Andy Catlett's story begins as his grandfather, Marce Catlett, rises in the dark to go from his farm, by horseback and train, to Louisville for the sale of his tobacco crop at the auction house. The price paid for each year's crop is determined and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bringing It to the Table

  on Farming and Food

  Berry, Wendell, 1934-

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  Only a farmer could delve so deeply into the origins of food, and only a writer of Wendell Berry's caliber could convey it with such conviction and eloquence. A progenitor of the slow food movement, Wendell Berry reminds us all to take the time to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Memory of Old Jack

  Berry, Wendell, 1934-

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  Old Jack, born just after the American Civil War and dying in contemporary times, spends one beautiful September day in Port William, his home since birth, remembering. The story tells of the most searing moments of Old Jack's life, particularly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Country of Marriage

  Berry, Wendell, 1934-

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  First published in 1971, The Country of Marriage is Wendell Berry's fifth volume of poetry. What he calls "an expansive metaphor" is "a farmer's relationship to his land as the basic and central relation of humanity to creation." "Similarly,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• That Distant Land

  the Collected Stories

  Berry, Wendell, 1934-

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  Originally published in 2005, That Distant Land brings together twenty-three stories from the Port William Membership. Arranged in their fictional chronology, the book is not an anthology so much as it is a coherent temporal mapping of this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Leavings

  Poems

  Berry, Wendell, 1934-

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  No one writes like Wendell Berry. Whether essay, novel, story, or poem, his inimitable voice rings true, as natural as the land he has farmed in Kentucky for over forty years. Following the widely praised Given , this new collection offers a…Read moreRead more of this annotation