The Way of Ignorance
And Other Essays
$35.18
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
17 May 2006
Summary
A soulful, searching collection of essays that tackle the complexities of contemporary America from “the prophet of rural America” (New York Times).From the war in Iraq to Hurricane Katrina to the political sniping engendered by Supreme Court nominations-contemporary American society is characterized by divisive anger, profound loss, and danger. Wendell Berry, “the prophet of rural America” (New York Times) and one of the country’s foremost cultural critics, responds with hope and intelligenc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781593761196 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1593761198 |
| Author: | Wendell Berry |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 17 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 299g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“[Berry’s] poems, novels and essays … are probably the most sustained contemporary articulation of America’s agrarian, Jeffersonian ideal.” —Publishers Weekly
“Wendell Berry is one of those rare individuals who speaks to us always of responsibility, of the individual cultivation of an active and aware participation in the arts of life.” —The Bloomsbury Review
About The Author
Wendell Berry
WENDELL BERRY, an essayist, novelist, and poet, has been honored with the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the John Hay Award of the Orion Society, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, among other distinctions. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama, and in 2016, he was the recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. Berry lives with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Henry County, Kentucky.
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