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Fidelity. New York: Pantheon, 1992. Also collected in That Distant Land: The Collected Stories. Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004. |
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From the back cover: "Uncommonly satisfying art and vision." Kirkus Reviews "Wendell Berry's latest collection contains five stories that return to one of his favorite places, the fictional town of Port William, Kentucky....As always, he richly evokes the region's farmland and hamlets, and his characters are fiercely individual....Mr. Berry's sentences are exquisitely constructed, suggesting the cyclic rhythms of his agrarian world." John Kenny Crane, New York Times Book Review "Visionary...rooted in a deep concern for nature and the land. ... [these stories are] tough, relentless and clear. In a roundabout way they are confrontational because they ask basic questions about men and women, violence, work and loyalty." Hans Ostrom, The Morning News Tribune "Each of these elegant stories spans the twentieth century and reveals the profound interconnectedness of the farmers and their families to one another, to their past and to the landscape they inhabit. Sarah Pollock, San Francisco Chronicle "The rarest (and highest) of literary classes consists of that small group of authors who are absolutely inimitable....One of the half-dozen living American authors who belong in this class is Wendell Berry.... [this] whole book is vintage Berry." Noel Perrin, Los Angeles Times Book Review Cover embroidery by Phillis Miller. 200 pages. |
Contents: Pray Without Ceasing Links: An overview of "Fidelity" from a medical perspective "Lest We Forget" an excerpt from "Making It Home" from Fidelity |