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Wendell Berry
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- 01 oktober 2012
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Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry (b. 1934) is a novelist, poet, farmer, and environmental writer and activist. He has published over fifty books, including more than two dozen books of poetry, sixteen essay collections, and eight novels. In 2010 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama, and in 2013 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2016 he received the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. He has made his home with his wife, Tanya Berry, in Henry County, Kentucky, for the last fifty years.
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For more than fifty years, Wendell Berry has been telling us 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. In this new collection, the author"s first piece of new fiction since the publication of Andy Catlett in 2006, the stories date"s range from 1864, when Rebecca Dawe finds herself in her own reflection at the end of the Civil War, to one from 1991 when Grover Gibbs" widow, Beulah, attends the auction as her home place is offered for sale.
It feels as if the entire membership, all the Catletts, Burley Coulter, Elton Penn, the Rowanberrys, Laura Milby, the preacher"s wife, Kate Helen Branch, Andy"s dog, Mike, nearly everyone returns with a story or two, to fill in the gaps in this long tale. Those just now joining the Membership will be charmed. Those who"ve attended before will be enriched.
The story of the community of Port William is one of the great works in American literature. Published in the author"s 78th year, this collection, the tenth volume in the series, is the perfect occasion to celebrate his huge achievement.
"And so it"s all gone. A new time has come. Various ones of the old time keep faith and stop by to see me, Coulter and Wilma and a few others. But the one I wait to see is Althie. Seems like my whole life now is lived under the feeling of her hand touching me that day of the sale, and every day still.
I lie awake in the night, and I can see it all in my mind, th old place, the house, all the things I took care of so long. I thought I might miss it, but I don"t. The time has gone when I oculd do more than worry about it, and I declare it"s a load off my mind. But the thoughts, still, are a kind of company."
-- Beulah Gibbs
It feels as if the entire membership, all the Catletts, Burley Coulter, Elton Penn, the Rowanberrys, Laura Milby, the preacher"s wife, Kate Helen Branch, Andy"s dog, Mike, nearly everyone returns with a story or two, to fill in the gaps in this long tale. Those just now joining the Membership will be charmed. Those who"ve attended before will be enriched.
The story of the community of Port William is one of the great works in American literature. Published in the author"s 78th year, this collection, the tenth volume in the series, is the perfect occasion to celebrate his huge achievement.
"And so it"s all gone. A new time has come. Various ones of the old time keep faith and stop by to see me, Coulter and Wilma and a few others. But the one I wait to see is Althie. Seems like my whole life now is lived under the feeling of her hand touching me that day of the sale, and every day still.
I lie awake in the night, and I can see it all in my mind, th old place, the house, all the things I took care of so long. I thought I might miss it, but I don"t. The time has gone when I oculd do more than worry about it, and I declare it"s a load off my mind. But the thoughts, still, are a kind of company."
-- Beulah Gibbs
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