Telling the Stories Right

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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491_9781532638091

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Wendell Berry thinks of himself as a storyteller. Its somewhat ironic then that he is better known as an essayist, a poet, and an advocate for small farmers. The essays in this collection consider the many facets of Berrys life and work, but they focus on his efforts as a novelist and story writer. Indeed, Berry had already published three novels before his seminal work of cultural criticism, The Unsettling of America, established him as an ardent defender of local communities and sustainable agriculture. And over the past fifty years, he has published eight novels and more than forty-eight short stories set in the imagined community of Port William. His exquisite rendering of this small Kentucky town challenges us to see the beauty of our own places and communities and to tend their health, threatened though it inevitably is. The twelve contributors to this collection approach Berrys fiction from a variety of perspectives--literary studies, journalism, theology, history, songwriting--to shed light on its remarkable ability to make a good life imaginable and compelling. The first collection devoted to Berrys fiction, this volume insists that any consideration of Berrys work must begin with his stories.The next best thing to reading Berry is to read those who write about Berrys writing. We should be extremely grateful that we now have this collection of wise investigations of Berrys novels and short stories. These essays do what they were meant to do which is nothing less than celebrate Berrys fertile imagination.--Stanley Hauerwas, Professor of Divinity and Law at Duke UniversityWhen I encounter readers, who share Wendell Berrys concerns but are unfamiliar with his work, I urge them to begin with his fiction. One finds there, more fully arrayed than in his essays or poetry, the web of relationships connecting persons, place, and community. The weaving of that web, on the page and in the world, is the subject of the dozen studies in this book, a

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