Port William Series by Wendell Berry

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  • Nathan Coulter (Port William #1)
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    Nathan Coulter (Port William #1)

    Wendell Berry

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1960

    Nathan Coulter begins Wendell Berry's sequence of novels about the citizens of Port William, Kentucky- a setting that is taking its place alongside Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, and Winesburg, Ohio, as one of our most distinctive and recognizable literary locales.

  • The Memory of Old Jack (Port William #1)
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    The Memory of Old Jack (Port William #1)

    Wendell Berry

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1974

    In a rural Kentucky river town, "Old Jack" Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the sades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live from it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values Americans strive to recapture as we arrive at the next century... more

  • A Place on Earth (Port William #1)
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    A Place on Earth (Port William #1)

    Wendell Berry

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1966

    Published in 1967, we return to Port William during the Second World War to revisit Jayber Crow, the barber, Uncle Stanley, the gravedigger, Jarrat and Burley, the sharecroppers, and Brother Preston, the preacher, as well as Mat Feltner, his wife Margaret, and his daughter-in-law Hannah, whose son will be born after news comes that Hannah's husband Virgil is missing.The earth is the genius of our life," Wendell Berry writes here. "The final questions and their answers lie serenely coupled in it.

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