Wendell Berry
Subtitle: Port William novels & stories : the Civil War to World War II
By: Jack Shoemaker, editor
Contributors: Shoemaker, Jack, 1946- editor
Series: Library of America -- 302; Library of America -- 302.
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1021
ISBN-13: 9781598535549
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Country life; Fiction; Port William (Ky. : Imaginary place); Farmers
Other titles: Port William novels & stories :
Work titles: Works
Description: "For more than fifty years, in eight novels and forty-two short stories, Wendell Berry (b. 1934) has created an indelible portrait of rural America through the lens of Port William, Kentucky, one of the most fully imagined places in American literature. Taken together, these novels and stories form a masterwork of American prose: straightforward, spare, and lyrical. Now, for the first time, in an edition prepared in consultation with the author, Library of America is presenting the complete story of Port William in the order of narrative chronology. This first volume, which spans from the Civil War to World War II, gathers the novels Nathan Coulter (1960, revised 1985), A Place on Earth (1967, revised 1983), A World Lost (1996), and Andy Catlett: Early Travels (2006), along with twenty-three short stories, among them such favorites as "Watch With Me," "Thicker than Liquor," and "A Desirable Woman." It also features a newly researched chronology of Berry?s life and career, a map and a Port William Membership family tree, and helpful notes"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Map and genealogical table on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The girl in the window (1864) --; title: The hurt man (1888) --; title: Fly away, breath (1907) --; title: A consent (1908) --; title: Pray without ceasing (1912) --; title: Watch with me (1916) --; title: A half-pint of old darling (1920) --; title: The lost bet (1929) --; title: Nathan Coulter (1929-1941) --; title: Down in the valley where the green grass grows (1930) --; title: Thicker than liquor (1930) --; title: Nearly to the fair (1932) --; title: Burley Coulter's fortunate fall (1934) --; title: The solemn boy (1934) --; title: A jonquil for Mary Penn (1940) --; title: Turn back the bed (1941) --; title: A burden (1882, 1907, 1941) --; title: A desirable woman (1938-1941) --; title: Misery (1943) --; title: Andy Catlett : early education (1943) --; title: Andy Catlett : early travels (1943) --; title: Drouth (1944) --; title: Stand by me (1921-1944) --; title: A world lost (1944) --; title: A place on Earth (1945) --; title: Making it home (1945) --; title: Not a tear (1945)