false 146155 3 Part ribald farce, part lyrical contemplation, Wendell Berry's novel is the story of a place-Port William, Kentucky-the farm lands and forests that surround it, and the river that runs nearby 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. <P>"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." -Wallace Stegner <P>"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 savoured slowly for its humanity, humor, wisdom, and poetry." -Publishers Weekly 141048 1967 A Place on Earth: A Novel total:176|5:88|4:71|3:15|2:2|1:0| 176 773 269 26 5 2 false false Sun Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 08:01:23 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 08:34:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 05 16:28:41 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 16:59:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 19:36:53 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 13:41:46 -0700 2009
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Read Wendell Berry's Port Arthur series if you can. It spans the 20th century, but each book also stands alone.

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