'The most complete - and the most powerful - vision of any American writer in my time.' - Bill McKibben. For more than sixty years, Wendell Berry conjured the interconnected lives of the people of the fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, in a multi-generational saga that spans from the Civil War to the present day. Now Library of America completes its definitive edition of this extended masterpiece, prepared in consultation with the author before his death and presenting the complete story for the first time in the order of narrative chronology. Contents: Port William Novels & Stories I: The Civil War to World War II (Nathan Coulter; Andy Catlett: Early Travels; A World Lost; A Place on Earth; Plus 23 Stories); Port William Novels & Stories II: The Postwar Years (The Memory of Old Jack; Remembering; Plus 23 Stories); Port William Novels & Stories III: The Final Years (Jayber Crow; Hannah Coulter; Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story; Plus 16 Stories).
