Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories: The Civil War to World War II (LOA #302)
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$67.57
- Hardcover
1034 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2018
Summary
Library of America inaugurates its edition of the complete fiction of one of America’s most beloved living writers.
For more than fifty years, in eight novels and forty-two short stories, Wendell Berry (b. 1934) has created an indelible portrait of rural America through the lens of Port William, Kentucky, one of the most fully imagined places in American literature. Taken together, these novels and stories form a masterwork of American prose—straightforward, spare, and lyrical.
<…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598535549 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598535544 |
| Author: | Wendell Berry, Jack Shoemaker |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1034 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2018 |
| Weight: | 646g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 132mm x 33mm |
| Series: | Library of America Wendell Berry Edition |
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Critics Review
“Wendell Berry gives us an intimate portrayal of the mind and heart of rural America. His graceful prose is truthful and eloquent. His tone is reliable and steady, like a good rain, sober and serious—all this and at times he is so funny you have to stop and roll on the floor.” —Bobbie Ann Mason
“This is the most complete—and the most powerful—vision of any American writer in my time. The stories of the Port William Membership are a delight, a goad, and a testament less to what was than to what could be. They will leave no reader unmoved and unchanged.” —Bill McKibben
About The Author
Wendell Berry
WENDELL BERRY (b. 1934) is a novelist, poet, farmer, and environmental writer and activist. He has published over 50 books, including over 25 books of poetry, 16 essay collections, and 8 novels. In 2010 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama, and in 2013 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2016 he received the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. He has made his home with his wife, Tanya Berry, in Henry County, Kentucky, for the last 50 years.
JACK SHOEMAKER is the Editorial Director of Counterpoint Press, publishing the work of Gary Snyder, M.F.K. Fisher, Evan S. Connell, Robert Aitken, Anne Lamott, Jane Vandenburgh, and many others. He has worked with Wendell Berry for more than forty years.
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