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A collection of 22 groundbreaking essays offering both sound advice and deep concern for America's future. Adressing topics ranging from consumerism to literary subjects and waste management, Berry gracefully navigates his way through many of the key issues in contemporary culture. But despite the somber nature of his essays, Berry also provides and underlying sense of faith and hope, shedding light into an otherwise bleak reality.
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Wherever we live, however we do so, we desperately need a prophet of responsibility; and although the days of the prophets seem past to many of us, Berry may be the closest to one we have. But, fortunately, he is also a poet of responsibility. He makes one believe that the good life may not only be harder than what we’re used to but sweeter as well.” The New York Review of Books
He is . . . the prophetic American voice of our day.” Christian Science Monitor
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Wherever we live, however we do so, we desperately need a prophet of responsibility; and although the days of the prophets seem past to many of us, Berry may be the closest to one we have. But, fortunately, he is also a poet of responsibility. He makes one believe that the good life may not only be harder than what we’re used to but sweeter as well.” The New York Review of Books
He is . . . the prophetic American voice of our day.” Christian Science Monitor
Wendell Berry is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was most recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For more than forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife Tanya in Kentucky.
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