Port William novels & stories : the postwar years

Author

Wendell Berry

Call Number

• FICTION BERR (CEN)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2024]

Physical Description

xii, 637 pages : map, genealogical table ; 21 cm

Summary

'"For more than sixty years, Wendell Berry has invited readers to Port William, Kentucky, a fictional setting that rivals Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, as the most richly imagined place in American literature. Library of America presents Berry's career-spanning masterpiece of storytelling for the first time as a single chronological narrative. This second volume gathers twenty-three stories and two novels that chronicle the lives of the Port William Membership from 1945 to 1978."--Dust jacket.

Notes

Map and genealogical table on endpages.

Contents

• The divide (V-J Day)
• A conversation (1943-2013)
• A clearing (1945-2014)
• One nearly perfect day (1946)
• Where did they go? (1946)
• A time out of time (1947-2015)
• The dark country (1948)
• A new day (1949)
• Mike (1939-1950)
• One of us (1950)
• The discovery of Kentucky
• The memory of Old Jack (1952)
• It wasn't me (1953)
• The boundary (1965)
• That distant land (1965)
• Who dreamt this dream? (1966)
• A friend of mine (1967)
• The wild birds (1967)
• The requirement (1970)
• Are you all right? (1973)
• An empty jacket (1974)
• Remembering (1974-76)
• Dismemberment (1974-2008)
• Fidelity (1977)
• The great interruption : the story of a famous story of Old Port William and how it ceased to be told (1935-1978).