At last, Wendell Berry's complete Port William saga presented in the order he intended, and collected in a deluxe three volume boxed set
"The most complete--and the most powerful--vision of any American writer in my time." --Bill McKibben
For more than sixty years, Wendell Berry has conjured the interconnected lives of the people of the fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, in a multi-generational saga that spans from the Civil War to the present day. Now Library of America completes its definitive edition of this extended masterpiece, prepared in consultation with the author and presenting the complete story for the first time in the order of narrative chronology.
Contents:
Port William Novels & Stories I: The Civil War to World War II
Nathan Coulter
Andy Catlett: Early Travels
A World Lost
A Place on Earth
Plus 23 Stories
Port William Novels & Stories II: The Postwar Years
The Memory of Old Jack
Remembering
Plus 23 Stories
Port William Novels & Stories III: The Final Years
Jayber Crow
Hannah Coulter
Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story
Plus 16 Stories
Wendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For over forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.