A Place on Earth

by Wendell Berry

Overview

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."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781582431246
Publisher:	Catapult
Publication date:	05/17/2001
Series:	Port William
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	523,170
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Wendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For over forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.

What People are Saying About This

Wallace Stenger

A splendid, warm, heartfelt novel about countrymen by a countryman...What a pleasure it is to read a book about decent people who love or like or at least tolerate each other.

Editorial Reviews

Mat's inner struggle to come to terms with the world is illuminated and given meaning by Wendell Berry's compassionate understanding of the town, the land, and the people he writes about...His book is one to be savored slowly for its humanity, humor, wisdom, and poetry.

Publishers Weekly