Hannah Coulter
2004 • 190 pages

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Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry’s seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman character in its telling. Hannah, the now–elderly narrator, recounts the love she has for the land and for her community. She remembers each of her two husbands, and all places and community connections threatened by twentieth–century technologies. At risk is the whole culture of family farming, hope redeemed when her wayward and once lost grandson, Virgil, returns to his rural home place to work the farm.

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1 primary book12 released books

Port William

Port William is a 12-book series with 1 primary work first released in 1960 with contributions by Wendell Berry.


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Loved: The gentle wisdom that comes from Hannah's thoughts. So many good quotes!
Disliked: That Nathan and Hannah are not real people md I cannot visit them.
What will stick with me: How much I love Berry's writing and can't wait to read more!

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