Home Economics
Fourteen Essays
$30.27
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2009
Summary
In Home Economics, Berry explores what it means to make oneself “responsibly at home.” As he argues, a measure of the health of the planet is economics-the health of its households.“Wherever we live, however we do so, we desperately need a prophet of responsibility; and although the days of the prophets seem past to many of us, Berry may be the closest to one we have. But, fortunately, he is also a poet of responsibility. He makes one believe that the good life may not only be harder than wha…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781582434858 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1582434859 |
| Author: | Wendell Berry |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2009 |
| Weight: | 235g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 127mm |
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“Wherever we live, however we do so, we desperately need a prophet of responsibility; and although the days of the prophets seem past to many of us, Berry may be the closest to one we have. But, fortunately, he is also a poet of responsibility. He makes one believe that the good life may not only be harder than what we’re used to but sweeter as well.” —The New York Review of Books
About The Author
Wendell Berry
WENDELL BERRY is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For over forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.
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