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This volume of six linked stories and the novella from which the book derives its title is set in Port William from 1908 to the Second World War. Here Wendell Berry introduces two of his more indelible and poignant characters, Ptolemy Proudfoot and his wife Miss Minnie, remarkable for the comic and...

"Here is a human being speaking with calm and sanity out of the wilderness. We would do well to hear him." —The Washington Post Book World The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture. Grouped...

A lovingly illustrated collection of poems for all ages highlighting the timeless beauty of nature, from one of America’s leading literary lights.   Illustrator Tom Pohrt spent years gathering poems by prize-winning writer Wendell Berry that he thought children as well as adults could appreciate,...

The essays in The Gift of Good Land are as true today as when they were first published in 1981; the problems addressed here are still true and the solutions no nearer to hand. The insistent theme of this book is the interdependence, the wholeness, the oneness of people, land, weather, animals, and...

A gorgeous edition of poems and one short story by an acclaimed author illustrated by the stunning wood etchings of a celebrate wood engraver.   Originally published in portfolio form by West Meadow Press in 1995, this edition of Roots to the Earth weds the poetry and prose of beloved American author...

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,...

“Self-styled” writer Grace Cleave has writer’s block, and her anxiety is only augmented by her chronic aversion to leaving her home, to be “among people, even for five or ten minutes.” And so it is with trepidation that she accepts an invitation to spend a weekend away from London in the north...

**“*****Marry or Burn *****resolutely probes the idea and range of marriage . . . forming a dangerous, sharp-edged mosaic.” —**The Seattle Times   From the author of *Seven Loves *comes this austere, passionately shaped collection of stories that courageously explores the dynamic nature...

"Rarely has a marriage so come alive in a work of fiction. . . So intense, beautifully written, shining with 'felt life,' it is truly gripping—riveting." —Joyce Carol Oates Abigail McCormick and Ray Stark are both poets, married nearly twenty-five years in what has always been...

With generosity, humor, and pathos, Anne Lamott takes on the barrage of dislocating changes that shook the Sixties. Leading us through the wake of these changes is Nanny Goodman, a girl living in Marin County, California. A half-adult child among often childish adults, Nanny grows up with two spectacularly...

A woman finds love while starting over in a remote Nova Scotia village in this “moving story of grief, love, isolation, and the elements” (San Jose Mercury News).   Fleeing a dissolving marriage in California, artist Anna Starling travels to the isolated landscape of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia...

Jerry Maxwell and his good friend Roary are both handicapped. They divide their time between Max's bar in San Francisco and the bleachers of the Oakland Sports Complex to cheer on the Golden State Warriors. Together the two set out to make Jerry's dream of playing professional basketball a reality. Inside...

The classic novel about a repressed upper-middle-class husband in the American Midwest, by a New York Times–bestselling and Man Booker Prize–winning author. Walter Bridge is an ambitious Kansas City lawyer who redoubles his efforts and time at the office whenever he senses that his family...

“Don Carpenter’s semi-”autobiographical Fridays at Enrico’s can be read as the swan song of the entire Love Generation.” —The New York Times Book Review The author of A Hard Rain Falling and A Couple of Comedians, Don Carpenter was one of the finest novelists working in the west....