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Berry, Wendell

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Summary: Wendell Berry is a writer of great clarity and sureness. His love of language and his care for its music are matched only by his fidelity to the subjects he has written of during his first twenty-five years of work : land and nature, the family and community, tradition as the groundwork for life and culture. His graceful elegies sit easily alongside lyrics of humor and biting satire. Husbandman...

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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 1985

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Berry, Wendell

Summary: This first volume collects thirty-three essays from nine different books, including his first, The Long-Legged House (1969), What are People For? (1990), with its still provocative essay "Why I am Not Going to Buy a Computer," and the complete text of his now classic The Unsettling of America (1975), whose argument about the enormous ecological, economic, and human costs of industrial...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BER

Berry, Wendell

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Berry, Wendell

Summary: "At the age of eighty, Andy Catlett is preparing himself to join the whole Membership of Port William, which includes those alive as well as those departed who still seem vividly alive. As he looks back on his own life through thirteen stories that range from his earliest childhood memories to the present day, from 1945 to 2001, How It Went reveals Andy at his most loving and retrospective,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2022

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Berry, Wendell

Summary: "Wendell Berry has never been afraid to speak up for the dispossessed. The Need to Be Whole continues the work he began in The Hidden Wound (1970) and The Unsettling of America (1977), demanding a careful exploration of this hard, shared truth: The wealth of the mighty few governing this nation has been built on the unpaid labor of others. Without historical understanding of this practice of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Shoemaker & Company 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.3 BER

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