Thirteen new stories of the Port William membership spanning the
decades from World War II to the present moment
For those readers of his poetry and inspired by his increasingly vital
work as advocate for rational land use and the right-size life, these
stories of Wendell Berry's offer entry into the fictional place of value
and beauty that is Port William, Kentucky. Berry has said it's taken a
lifetime for him to learn to write like an old man, and that's what we
have here, stories told with grace and ease and majesty. Wendell Berry
is one of our greatest living American authors, writing with the wisdom
of maturity and the incandescence that comes of love.
These thirteen new works explore the memory and imagination of Andy
Catlett, one of the well-loved central characters of the Port William
saga. From 1932 to 2021, these stories span the length of Andy's life,
from before the outbreak of the Second World War to the threatened end
of rural life in America.