- Paperback: 317 pages
- Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre / Not Applicable; Rev Sub edition (Jan 1 1982)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0865470448
- ISBN-13: 978-0865470446
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,224,162 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Christian Audio continues on its ambitious course to bring Wendell Berry's Port William Membership novels to the audio format with accomplished narrator Paul Michael once again demonstrating his tremendous range. Set in the closing months of World War II, Berry incorporates familiar characters from other works in the series without focusing on a particular individual or family. Instead, the town of Port William serves as the central protagonist, offering the uninitiated a Berry immersion course, though one that requires attentive and patient listening. The multiple story lines of loss and redemption weave together at a deliberate pace, much like the agrarian rhythms of planting and harvesting that Berry holds so dear. As always, Michael demonstrates a special knack for dialogue, especially the nuances of marriage, family and friendship in a rural community. Granted, when measured by the yardstick of the contemporary fiction marketplace, A Place on Earth can certainly be described as demanding, but the excellent production offers a feast of the senses for discerning audiences. A Counterpoint paperback. (Oct.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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The rhythms of this novel are the rhythms of the land. A Place on Earth resonates with variations played on themes of change; looping transitions from war into peace, winter into spring, browning flood destruction into greening fields, absence into presence, lost into found. This brings the revised 1983 edition back into print, the next book in our program to put all of Wendell Berrys fiction into print in revised and corrected uniform editions. 12 hrs
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A beautiful book,
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This review is from: A Place on Earth (Paperback)
This is to me simply a beautiful novel. I was reading the reviews and found the one from the gentleman in Utah that gave it one star and just could not fathom his review. There is immense depth in the story and character development. It is a great novel and I'm going to read it again now. Worth every cent.
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A novel of death & rebirth,
This review is from: A Place on Earth (Paperback)
This is a wonderful novel that delivers what I hope to find in fiction (but seldom do): wisdom. Berry offers no easy answers--instead, his stories deepen our sense of life's mystery.
1.0 out of 5 stars
A Long way to get nowhere,
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This review is from: A Place on Earth (Paperback)
A Place on Earth is a laborious, read so filled with description and imagined thought processes that the point of the story is never evident. The character development is not sufficient to entice the reader into really caring for any of the many, many people who wonder through the "Place". It would be nice if Mr. Berry decided whether to present his ramblings in the past or present tense. If you are interested in what a valley looked like in Kentucky during World War II, and you have a lot of time to figure out the unnecessarily complex rhetoric, maybe you'll enjoy this book. If you want a story that invites you to turn to the next page, this ain't the place.
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