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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherCounterpoint Press
ISBN-101582431248
ISBN-139781582431246
eBay Product ID (ePID)1716381
Product Key Features
Book TitlePlace on Earth
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPersonal Memoirs, General
Publication Year2001
FeaturesRevised
GenreFiction, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorWendell Berry
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight14.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-064446
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition21
Dewey DecimalFIC
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisPublished 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."
This is a lovely story of living in the Eastern part of KY in the mid 1900's. If tells of the everyday live and hardship of the people and what they had to go through with to take care of themselves and their families. Well worth the reading.