Place On Earth
A Novel
Port William Series
- By: Wendell Berry & Paul Michael
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 12 hours 1 minutes
Description
The rhythms of this novel are the rhythms of the land. A Place on Earth resonates with variations played on themes of change; looping transitions from war into peace, winter into spring, browning flood destruction into greening fields, absence into presence, lost into found. This brings the revised 1983 edition back into print, the next book in our program to put all of Wendell Berry's fiction into print in revised and corrected uniform editions.
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Port William Series Series
Memory of Old Jack
By: Wendell Berry
Narrated by: Paul Michael
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
In a rural Kentucky river town, “Old Jack” Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the shades 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 it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values... Read more »
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Place On Earth
By: Wendell Berry & Paul Michael
Narrated by: Paul Michael
Length: 12 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No
The rhythms of this novel are the rhythms of the land. A Place on Earth resonates with variations played on themes of change; looping transitions from war into peace, winter into spring, browning flood destruction into greening fields, absence into presence, lost into found. This brings the revised 1983 edition back into print, the next book in...
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Andy Catlett
By: Wendell Berry
Narrated by: Paul Michael
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Berry opens this latest installment of the Port William series with young Andy Catlett preparing to visit a place he’d been to many times before, though this would be an adventure he will take very seriously. Nine years old, Andy embarks on the trip by bus, alone for the first time. He decides it will be a rite of passage and his first step into... Read more »
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Jayber Crow
By: Wendell Berry & Paul Michael
Narrated by: Paul Michael
Length: 14 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From the simple setting of his own barber shop, Jayber Crow, orphan, SEMInarian, and native of Port William, recalls his life and the life of his community as it spends itself in the middle of the twentieth century. Surrounded by his friends and neighbors, he is both participant and witness as the community attempts to transcend its own decline....
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Hannah Coulter
By: Wendell Berry
Narrated by: Susan Denaker
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
In the latest installment in Wendell Berry's long story about the citizens of Port William, Kentucky, readers learn of the Coulters' children, of the Feltners and Branches, and how survivors "live right on." "Ignorant boys, killing each other,” is just about all Nathan Coulter would tell his wife about the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of... Read more »
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