Hannah Coulter A Novel

by Berry, Wendell

• ISBN13: 9781593760366
• ISBN10: 1593760361
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-27
• Publisher: PUBLISHERS GROUP WEST

Summary

Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel in the Port William series of novels and his first with a woman as the main character. Now in her eighties and living alone, Hannah as her way of giving thanks looks back at her life. Her journey through time leads us to a new understanding of her family, neighbors and friends those who have stood by her for decades. Through them all she comes to see herself as part of a great continuum of love and memory, grief and devotion. Wendell Berry has has written a novel of great depth and strength that will remind you that he is one of America's finest novelists.

Author Biography

Author of over forty books of fiction, poetry, and essays, including Citizenship Papers, Wendell Berry has farmed a hillside in his native Henry County, Kentucky, for over thirty years. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the T. S. Eliot Award, the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry, and the John Hay Award of the Orion Society

Table of Contents

Part One
1. The Story Continuing	3	(3)
2. A Steadman	6	(10)
3. The Future Shining Before Us	16	(4)
4. Virgil	20	(12)
5. What We Were	32	(9)
6. One of the Feltners, a Member of Port William	41	(8)
7. "Missing"	49	(12)
Part Two
8. Nathan	61	(12)
9. Generosity	73	(8)
10. Our Place	81	(10)
11. The Membership	91	(5)
12. Burley	96	(6)
13. Ivy	102	(3)
14. The Room of Love	105	(6)
15. A Better Chance	111	(10)
16. M. B. Coulter	121	(5)
17. Caleb	126	(9)
18. Margaret	135	(11)
19. The Branches	146	(11)
Part Three
20. The Living	157	(10)
21. Okinawa	167	(7)
22. Next?	174	(7)
23. Virge	181	(5)
24. Given	186	(3)
Acknowledgments	189	(3)
Map of Port William	192	(2)
Genealogy of Port William	194