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| Genre/Form: | Pastoral fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Wendell Berry |
| ISBN: | 1593760361 9781593760366 1593760787 9781593760786 |
| OCLC Number: | 55633984 |
| Description: | 190 p. : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Story continuing -- Steadman -- Future shining before us -- Virgil -- What we were -- One of the Feltners, a member of Port William -- "Missing" -- Nathan -- Generosity -- Our place -- Membership -- Burley -- Ivy -- Room of love -- Better chance -- M.B. Coulter -- Caleb -- Margaret -- Branches -- Living -- Okinawa -- Next? -- Virge -- Given -- Acknowledgments -- Map of Port William -- Genealogy of Port William. |
| Responsibility: | Wendell Berry. |
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Abstract:
In the latest installment in Wendell Berry's long story about the citizens of Port William, Kentucky, readers learn of the Coulters' children, of the Feltners and Branches, and how survivors "live right on."
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A Good Life Well Lived
Being a person who grew up in a rural setting but moved to a suburb, I find this book about rural lives is very thought provoking.Wendell Berry is a poet, novelist, and essayist, who has often written about rural America, the environment, and moral values. He included all of these elements in Hannah...
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Being a person who grew up in a rural setting but moved to a suburb, I find this book about rural lives is very thought provoking.Wendell Berry is a poet, novelist, and essayist, who has often written about rural America, the environment, and moral values. He included all of these elements in Hannah Coulter, which is a first person narrative about a good woman who has led a good life on farms in Kentucky, just south of the Ohio River. During the Depression of the 1930s and the during the Second World War, the community thrives because the farmers and their families naturally form a fellowship and work for each other as needed. Uncle Burley, one of the secondary characters, is known to have worked on every farm in the area without ever being paid a dime. After the war, the cohesion begins to unravel. As the century ends her children and grandchildren have scattered to cities near and far. A question that Hannah asks is whether her children's lives are better than her own. This would be a good book for discussion groups. I have recommended it to numerous friends.
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