num_pages: 160
description: Andy Catlett is nine years old when his Uncle Andrew is murdered and it destroys his sense of the order of things. Wendell Berry tackles the problem of truth and recollection as Andy Catlett gathers the details of this tragedy from the fragile memories of the townspeople. Tenderly, yet with directness, this short novel encompasses a changing way of life at the end of World War II.
language: English
title: A World Lost
titlecomplete: A World Lost
genres: Classics, Southern, Adult Fiction, The United States Of America, Novels, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1587
series: Port William
publisher: Counterpoint