A place in time
Subtitle: twenty stories of the Port William membership
By: Wendell Berrry
Publisher: Counterpoint Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781619020498
Subjects: Port William (Ky. : Imaginary place); City and town life; Fiction
Description: A collection of twenty short 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.
Table of contents: title: The girl in the window (1864) --; title: Fly away, breath (1907) --; title: Down in the valley where the green grass grows (1930) --; title: Burley Coulter's fortunate fall (1934) --; title: A Burden (1882, 1907, 1941) --; title: A Desirable woman (1938-1941) --; title: Misery (1943) --; title: Andy Catlett: Early education (1943) --; title: Drouth (1944) --; title: Stand by me (1921-1944) --; title: Not a tear (1945) --; title: The Dark country (1948) --; title: A New day (1949) --; title: Mike (1939-1950) --; title: Who dreamt this dream? (1966) --; title: The Requirement (1970) --; title: An empty jacket (1974) --; title: At home (1981) --; title: Sold (1991) --; title: A Place in time (1938-2008)