A Place In Time
Book 10 of 12: Port WilliamWendell Berry
Sold by Roebling Books, Covington, KY, U.S.A.
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Add to basketSold by Roebling Books, Covington, KY, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 4 August 2023
Condition: Used - Good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketTwenty Stories of The Port William Membership. Good Book/Good Dust Jacket. First Edition. First Printing. SIGNED BY WENDELL BERRY IN INK DIRECTLY TO THE TITLE PAGE. Light blue quarter paper binding with light blue paper over boards and gilt stamped title on spine. Covers show edgewear, indentations, and shelfwear to all extremities. Front and back covers show small dents to top and bottom edges. Front cover shows small dent to fore edge. Back cover shows indentations and soiling to bottom edge. Gilt is bright. Head of spine shows a few dings. Tail of spine bumped. Tail of spine shows heavy edgewear. Corners are sharp. Corners show light edgewear and rubbing. Dust jacket shows creases, edgewear, indentations, rubbing, scratches, shelfwear, spots of dampstaining, tears, soiling to all extremities. Front and back panels show indentations at grooves. Front panel shows dampstaining to top and bottom edges. Upper corner of back panel shows chipping. Back panel shows indentations. Front and back flaps show small creases to top to bottom edges. Back flap shows spots of dampstaining near back turn. All edges of textblock show a few light scratches and shelfwear. Fore edge and tail edge shows spots of dampstaining. Tail edge shows adhesive residue near spine. Front free endpaper shows spots of dampstaining. Hinges strong. Binding tight and square. Book slightly bowed. Pages clean and unmarked. 237 pages. 6-1/4 X 9-1/4.
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One of America’s most acclaimed writers deepens and expands his great literary saga set in small-town Kentucky spanning the Civil War to the present.
For more than fifty years, Wendell Berry has been telling us stories about Port William, a mythical town on the banks of the Kentucky River, populated over the years by a cast of unforgettable characters living in a single place over a long time. In A Place in Time, the stories dates range from 1864, when Rebecca Dawe finds herself in her own reflection at the end of the Civil War, to one from 1991 when Grover Gibbs’ widow, Beulah, attends the auction as her home place is offered for sale.
Written in “a style as clean and distinctive as H―emingway’s” and “as perspicacious as Mark Twain’s” (Booklist, Starred Review), the twenty stories here deepen Berry’s Port William saga, one of the great works in American literature. This collection, the tenth volume in the series, is the perfect occasion to celebrate Berry’s huge achievement. It feels as if the entire membership―all the Catletts, Burley Coulter, Elton Penn, the Rowanberrys, Laura Milby, the preacher’s wife, Kate Helen Branch, Andy’s dog, Mike―nearly everyone returns with a story or two, to fill in the gaps in this long tale. Those just now joining the Membership will be charmed. Those who’ve attended before will be enriched.
“[Berry’s] poems, novels and essays . . . are probably the most sustained contemporary articulation of America’s agrarian, Jeffersonian ideal.” ―Publishers Weekly
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