Research Catalog

Title

A place on earth / Wendell Berry.

Author

Berry, Wendell, 1934-

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Counterpoint, 2001.

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Details

Description

xi, 321 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"For more than fifty years, Wendell Berry has been telling us stories about Port William, a mythical town on the banks of the Kentucky River, populated over the years by a cast of unforgettable characters living in a single place over a long time. In this new collection, the author's first piece of new fiction since the publication of Andy Catlett in 2006, the stories date's range from 1864, when Rebecca Dawe finds herself in her own reflection at the end of the Civil War, to one from 1991 when Grover Gibbs' widow, Beulah, attends the auction as her home place is offered for sale. It feels as if the entire membership, all the Catletts, Burley Coulter, Elton Penn, the Rowanberrys, Laura Milby, the preacher's wife, Kate Helen Branch, Andy's dog, Mike, nearly everyone returns with a story or two, to fill in the gaps in this long tale. Those just now joining the Membership will be charmed. Those who've attended before will be enriched. The story of the community of Port William is one of the great works in American literature. Published in the author's 78th year, this collection, the tenth volume in the series, is the perfect occasion to celebrate his huge achievement."--Publisher's website

Subjects

• Pastoral fiction
• Kentucky > Fiction
• Country life > Fiction
• Port William (Ky. : Imaginary place) > Fiction

Genre/Form

Pastoral fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The empty store -- Missing -- The card game -- A dream of absence -- A departure -- Rain, rain -- I can do it by myself -- A voice from the distance -- A little shift in the wind -- Port William -- Company -- Like a bird -- The carpenter shop -- An old wound -- A pretty good boy -- Feeding -- The last -- The hotel -- The grass may grow a mile -- Images like seeds -- Waiting -- The barber's calling -- Talk -- A new calling -- Light and warmth -- Keeping watch -- The sheep barn -- A dark morning -- A difference made -- A comforter -- The sanctuary -- A knack for the here -- Born a idiot, educated a fool -- The farm in the valley -- Flood -- Where are you? -- Coming to rest -- A vigil -- The keeping of the place -- Changed -- Something ain't right -- Never what it was -- Some cleaning up -- A pleasing shadow -- For someone who will come later -- A spring night -- Green coming strong -- Look a yonder -- The bridge -- A guest at a strange table -- The wanting of what may be lost -- Something in the world to do -- A pleasant place to sit -- Green pasture -- Caught -- Daylight -- A birth -- Going down -- Dangerous ground -- He's dead -- Hard at it -- A widow alone -- Haunted -- A famous escapade -- The presence of grief -- A ramble -- A result -- The sense of time passing -- What is left -- That's fine -- Another result -- Six feet -- It's over! -- Redounding and sublime -- A passing dirge -- Among the dead -- Straightening up -- A homecoming -- Into the woods.

ISBN

1582431248 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00064446^

OCLC

• 45015397
• SCSB-11830559

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library