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A Place on Earth
by Wendell Berry
ISBN: 0865470448
ISBN-13: 9780865470446
Format: Paperback
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Summary
This novel, composed of many short episodes, is set in Wendell Berry's fictional Kentucky town, Port William, during World War II. Its subject is the town itself-its people, farmland, forests, and river-and the central event is the news that Virgil Feltner, son of Mat and Margaret, is missing in action in Europe.
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"A masterpiece-the best thing Wendell Berry has ever done, a book not to be missed."
-- New York Times Book Review
"Written by a craftsman poet, every word is chosen with great care."
-- Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.)
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published date: 1983
Size: 5.25 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.75 pounds
Publisher's Notes
In A Place on Earth the central character is not a person but a place: Port William, Kentucky, and the farmlands and forests that surround it, and the Kentucky River that runs nearby. This is a region that Mr. Berry knows intimately, both with heart and mind, a region whose faults and virtues he has spent a lifetime studying. In this novel he reveals the deep marriage between the land and its people; as a key figure in the story, the farmer Mat Feltner, puts it, "The earth is the genius of our life. The final questions and answers lie serenely coupled in it."
So the rhythms of the novel are the rhythms of the land. The novel 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. The style of the writing is exquisitely adapted to this varying subject, ranging from lyrical, reflective passages to ribald and rollicking farce -- but it is unified throughout by Wendell Berry's acute perception and delicate sensibility.
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A Place on Earth
Wendell Berry
North Point Pr, 1983-05. Softcover. CLEAN and tight/GOOD MINUS. softcover novel has paper cover which is illustrated and has minor wear covers are good with some light wear pages are clean ( more information)
Offered by ye ole book shoppe (United States)
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A Place on Earth
Berry, Wendell
North Point Press. Good 1983. Reprint. Softcovers are bright and clean, faint spine crease. Ink gift inscription, else interior clean and tight. ; ShapeBook; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; In A Place on Earth the central character is not a person but a place: Port William, Kentucky, and the farmlands and forests that surround it, and the Kentucky River that runs nearby. This is a region that Mr. Berry knows intimately, both with heart and mind, a region whose faults and virtues he has spent a lifetime studying. In this novel he reveals the deep marriage between the land and its people; as a key figure in the story, the farmer Mat Feltner, puts it, "The earth is the genius of our life. The final questions and answers lie serenely coupled in it." <P>So the rhythms of the novel are the rhythms of the land. The novel 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. The style of the writing is exquisitely adapted to this varying subject, ranging from lyrical, reflective passages to ribald and rollicking farce -- but it is unified throughout by Wendell Berry's acute perception and delicate sensibility. . ( more information)
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A Place on Earth
Wendell Berry
North Point Pr, 1983-05. Paperback. softbound/no dj. as pictured and described softbound clean text a few cover blemishes ( more information)
Offered by Live Oak Books (United States)
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A Place on Earth
Wendell Berry
North Point Pr, 1983-05. Paperback. pictorial softbound/no dj. as pictured and described, pictorial softbound, Brand New, without marks or creases, isbn:0865470448 ( more information)
Offered by Live Oak Books (United States)
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A PLACE ON EARTH. A REVISION
Berry, Wendell
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983 First North Point Press edition, first prnt. One of 100 copies numbered and signed by Berry on the reverse of the colophon page. Copy #2. Preface for this edition by Berry. Gilt spine lettering just touched, touch of shelfwear on spine cloth bottom edge, faint beginning foxing on the edges; dustjacket with shallow crease and beginning edge toning on the rear panel. Very Good+ condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Originally published in 1967 by Harcourt Brace and World. This copy owned by Virginia Berry, the author's mother, and donated by Berry after her death to the Pendleton County Public Library to assist the Library in restocking its collection destroyed by flooding. TLS from the Director of the Library laid-in detailing provenance. Letter folded and enclosed in Pendleton County Public Library envelope with holograph "Kevin." The North Point revision contains few additions and many deletions from the original which Berry considered "clumsy, overwritten, wasteful." Signed & Numbered by Author. First Thus. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy. Images are of the book described and not stock photos. ( more information)
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