From the Dust Jacket:

"... to him that is joined to all the living there is hope..." Ecclesiastes 9:4

In Three Short Novels -- Nathan Coulter, Remembering, and A World Lost -- we are given a chronicle of one community's response to the sense of loss and fractured hope brought on by the Second World War.

Young Nathan, in Nathan Coulter, struggles to grow up and understand the value of land and family. With the death of his grandfather, Nathan sees that "his life couldn't be divided from the days he'd spent at work in his fields."

In Remembering, it is 1976 and Andy Catlett is alone in San Francisco, walking the streets at dawn. In the eight months since losing his right hand to a corn-picking machine, he has also lost himself and his sense of place. Two thousand miles from home, he begins to remember -- people, places, the comfort of knowing land intimately.

A World Lost opens in the summer of 1944 when nine-year-old Andy is engrossed in the cool water of Chatham Spring and fields full of tumblebugs and meadowlarks. But calamity strikes Andy's world on a hot July afternoon when his Uncle Andrew is murdered.

Wendell Berry has said of Nathan Coulter, "when I finished work on this book at the end of the 1950s, I thought merely that I had made my start as a writer. I did not know that I had begun an interest in these characters that would still be productive over thirty years later." Throughout the Port William series is Wendell Berry's profound and inspiring vision of a compassionate and unsentimental duty to the land and to our communities.

Jacket design by David Bullen Design. Jacket art by Harlan Hubbard Window on the River, 1986. 326 pages.

Contents:

Nathan Coulter
Remembering
A World Lost