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Title: Fidelity: Five Stories by Wendell Berry ISBN: 0-679-74831-8 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: September, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Honest, earthy stories
Comment: These stories, especially the title story and "A Jonquil for Mary Penn," are among the finest I've ever read. They are stories of such moral integrity and beauty that I would include them among the best ever written by an American author, alongside the best by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Linda Hogan, and Tony Earley. All are set in the fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, and all confront similar themes: death, honor, community. The story "Fidelity" is the most powerful, the story of a mountain man who, according to the most rigid interpretation of the law, kidnaps his dying father from a hospital. Although Berry is heavy-handed in getting his point across, the beauty and honesty of the story easily carried me through it. A luminous book by one of America's greatest living writers.
Rating: 5
Summary: Made me weep
Comment: The title story touched me as no story has before or since. A son behaves intimately and unlawfully with his father during the days of his death. With the son we confront stupid laws and unfeeling bureaucracy and, in the end, vital community. The poignancy of the secret burial made me weep. How the son acts out his values with fidelity and grace is a story for all to learn from and be inspired. This is horror made beautiful. Berry's writing here is beyond criticism. Read this book and be renewed.
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Title: Three Short Novels by Wendell Berry ISBN: 1582431787 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry ISBN: 1582431604 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 18 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry ISBN: 1582430438 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Place on Earth: A Novel by Wendell Berry ISBN: 1582431248 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 05 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Two More Stories of the Port William Membership by Wendell Berry ISBN: 0917788710 Publisher: Gnomon Press Pub. Date: 17 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.50 |
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