The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership (audio)

by Wendell Berry

Publisher:

christianaudio.com

, 2024

Overview

A must-listen collection of stories from beloved American author Wendell Berry, including “Thicker Than Liquor,” “Where Did They Go?,” “It Wasn’t Me,” “The Boundary,” “That Distant Land,” and “The Wild Birds.” “Berry is a superb writer. His sense of what makes characters tick is extraordinary … Short stories don’t get any better than these.” -People. As part of Counterpoint’s celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry comes this reissue of his 1986 classic, The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership. Those stories include “Thicker Than Liquor,” “Where Did They Go?,” “It Wasn’t Me,” “The Boundary,” “That Distant Land,” and the titular “The Wild Birds.” Spanning more than three decades, from 1930 to 1967, these wonderful stories follow Wheeler Catlett, and reintroduce listeners to the beloved people who live in Berry’s fictional town of Port William, Kentucky.

Product Details

• Title: The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership (audio)
• Author: Wendell Berry
• Publisher: christianaudio.com
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Audio
• Subjects: Fiction › Small Town & Rural; Fiction › Southern; agrarian; Kentucky; American Literature
• ISBNs: 9781545923740, 1545923744
• Resource ID: LLS:9781545923740
• Resource Type: Media
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-02-26T16:25:43Z

About Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry has written more than 30 books, and has proven himself a writer of brilliant moral imagination. Whether he is writing about technology, family life, or small-scale farming, his vision of the human ecology is as important as any in contemporary American letters. Among the many honors he has received are a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Jean Stein Award, the T.S. Eliot Award, a Lannan Foundation Award for nonfiction, and the 2000 Poets’ Prize.