The Unsettling of America
Culture & Agriculture
$29.13
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2015
Summary
A landmark work of environmental writing that powerfully argues that our estrangement from the land through industrial farming is a cultural and spiritual crisis
Since its publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline. Today’s agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781619025998 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 161902599X |
| Author: | Wendell Berry |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2015 |
| Weight: | 420g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 229mm x 179mm |
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Praise for Wendell Berry
“Berry continues to offer a compelling vision of the good and the true life.” —The Boston Globe
“Berry is the prophetic American voice of our day.” —The Christian Science Monitor
“Berry enjoins us to look at common parts of creation—trees, rivers, and birds—but meditates upon them with such grace and insight as to ensure that we will never see them as commonplace again.” —Splendid Magazine
“Berry’s craftsmanship remains impeccable.” —Booklist
About The Author
Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry, an essayist, novelist, and poet, has been honored with the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the John Hay Award of the Orion Society, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, among other distinctions. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama, and in 2016, he was the recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. Berry lives with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Henry County, Kentucky.
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