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  <title><![CDATA[Fidelity: Five Stories]]></title>
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  <default_description>&quot;Berry richly evokes Port William's farmlands and hamlets, and his characters are fiercely individual, yet mutually protective in everything they do. . . . His sentences are exquisitely constructed, suggesting the cyclic rhythms of his agrarian world.&quot;--New York Times Book Review.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1992</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Wendell Berry]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Have you ever read a book only to envy the author's talent?  If only I could be as wonderful a writer as Wendell Berry.  The simplicity of his words evoke beautiful images of both scenery and inner beauty of the people he writes about.  The five stories in this book are all set near Port William, a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42082645">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Dec 24 09:34:57 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This slim volume of five short stories takes the reader back once again to Wendell Berry's fictional community of Port William, Kentucky and people who are familiar to us because of Berry's other novels that have been set in this tiny little rural Kentucky community.  It's always a pleasure to read ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40833341">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;A Jonquil for Mary&quot; -- captured that moment when a young wife realizes her husband truly loves her, truly sees her -- I loved that story's ending. All five stories in this too small collection show Berry's gift of painting the ordinary lives of people with compassion and fullness -- &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59994069">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Five of Wendell Berry's short stories collected together in one place. &quot;A Jonquil for Mary Penn&quot; in my mind is one of the most beautiful stories in the English language. I've never read anyone who can make a sad story sing the way Mr. Berry does. If you have never read any of Wendell Berry...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39522125">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't get to read all of the stories in here. My favorite one was about a young wife who is sick one day. The way he described her compelling dilemma still echoes in my mind. Her kitchen revealed so much about her character....and it was all done so quietly, gently. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wendell Berry: I think he's about 90, but still, I'm in love.  He's a big agrarian and I love the way he talks about the land and the people's connection to where they live and his ideas about health, etc. I also love his poetry.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The people in this book resemble my neighbors here in the mountains of Costa Rica.  Down to earth mountain people.  It is about community, the importance of kinship and friendship, and relationship to the land. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the way Berry is able to retell his philosophies of life through story just as well as he does through his essays. I appreciate his practical and healthy perspective.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow...I had forgotten how much I loved Berry's writing. THIS is a man who can wrench every emotion out of a short story with mere words. Incredible. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Pray Without Ceasing&quot; is my favorite of these stories.  Favorite line from it:  <br/><br/>&quot;My grandfather made a peace here that has joined many who would otherwise have been divided. I am the child of his forgiveness.&quot;<br/><br/>And a sample of Berry's beautiful figurative l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25133297">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I retold the story &quot;Fidelity&quot; to the children when they were young. A powerful and heart-wrenching story. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic collection of five stories connected by place.]]></body>
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    <review id="14081534">
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful and well written, but... I can't help but take issue with Berry's small-town utopia. Are we really dealing with technology vs. the people? I don't think it's that simple. Especially in the last story (Fidelity). I find it hard to believe that the family encountered no heart, no subtlety, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14081534">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wendell Berry is brilliant.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favorite collection of short stories.  Located in the rural Kentucky community of Port William, each story profiles  the relationships of different people in the community and deals with different aspects of unconditional love.  The sense of place, the role of the landscape and the enviro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31950361">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31003666">
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    <body><![CDATA[Wendell Berry writes stories about regular people living and working in the fictional farming town of Port William.  He writes about their relationships, their loyalty to each other, the natural world, and community.  If you liked Berry's novel <u>Jayber Crow</u>, you'll like these five short stories.  Rec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31003666">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's been a while since I read this book, but recently read the story &quot;Fidelity&quot; after which the collection is named. The author switches POV to various characters throughout the story in a way that is masterful. I'm interested to re-read the other stories to see what he does with structur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17534631">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my first Wendell Berry read.  I enjoyed his vivid character descriptions and how these 5 stories wove together.  At times, things got too wordy for me and I had to skim to get the story moving, but all in all, I would recommend it as a high quality read.]]></body>
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