That Distant Land The Collected Stories

by Berry, Wendell

• ISBN13: 9781593760540
• ISBN10: 159376054X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-24
• Publisher: Counterpoint

Summary

"That Distant Land collects twenty-three stories, interlinked with each other and with the six published "Port William" novels. The stories, arranged in their fictional chronology (from 1888 to almost the present day), become one sustained work, a new novel that spans the entire life and time involved. Included for the first time is a map of Port William and its surroundings along with a genealogy."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Wendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For over forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.

Table of Contents

The Hurt Man (1888)	3	(9)
Don't Send a Boy to Do a Man's Work (1891)	12	(13)
A Consent (1908)	25	(13)
Pray Without Ceasing (1912)	38	(39)
Watch With Me (1916)	77	(47)
A Half-Pint of Old Darling (1920)	124	(13)
The Lost Bet (1929)	137	(8)
Nathan Coulter (1929--1941)
Thicker than Liquor (1930)	145	(19)
Nearly to the Fair (1932)	164	(17)
The Solemn Boy (1934)	181	(15)
A Jonquil for Mary Penn (1940)	196	(14)
Turn Back the Bed (1941)	210	(11)
A World Lost (1944)
A Place on Earth (1945)
Making It Home (1945)	221	(16)
Where Did They Go? (1947)	237	(13)
The Discovery of Kentucky (1952?)	250	(16)
The Memory of Old Jack (1952)
It Wasn't Me (1953)	266	(23)
The Boundary (1965)	289	(19)
That Distant Land (1965)	308	(11)
A Friend of Mine (1967)	319	(18)
The Wild Birds (1967)	337	(28)
Are You All Right? (1973)	365	(7)
Remembering (1976)
Fidelity (1977)	372	(56)
Jayber Crow (1914--1986)
The Inheritors (1986)	428
Hannah Coulter (1934--2001)