Shoemaker Jack - Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories: The Postwar Years (Loa #381) - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Set along the banks of the Kentucky River in America's heartland fictional Port William Kentucky is an agrarian world is peopled with memorable and beloved characters collectively known as the Port William Membership. For more than 50 years Wendell Berry has told Port William's history from the Civil War to the present day recapturing a time when farming faith and family were the anchors of community and the ligaments that bound one generation to the next. Now Library of America continues its definitive edition prepared in close consultation with the author and published for his 90th birthday presenting the complete story of Port William for the first time in the order of narrative chronology. This second volume contains 23 stories and 2 novels that span the years 1945 to 1978, as the town faces the forces of mechanization and the looming possibility of its own disappearance. As the generation that came of age after the Civil War disappears the younger generation increasingly chooses to leave and not return; one of the only exceptions is Andy Catlett who resolves to remain in and to maintain the Membership. This definitive edition of Wendell Berry's complete fiction includes detailed notes endpapers featuring a map of Port William and a Membership family tree and a chronology of Berry's remarkable life and career.
Title: Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories: The Postwar Years (Loa #381)
Author(s): Shoemaker Jack
Publisher: The Library Of America
Barcode: 9781598537765
Pages: 800 Pages
Publication Date: 7/16/2024
Category: Social & Cultural History