What Are People For?
Essays
$44.41
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
25 May 2010
Summary
In the twenty-two essays collected here, Wendell Berry, whom The Christian Science Monitor called “the “prophetic American voice of our day,” conveys a deep concern for the American economic system and the gluttonous American consumerRanging from America’s insatiable consumerism and household economies to literary subjects and America’s attitude toward waste, this collection of essays finds Wendell Berry gracefully navigating from one topic to the next. Berry speaks candidly about the ills pl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781582434872 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1582434875 |
| Author: | Wendell Berry |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 25 May 2010 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 203mm x 127mm |
| Series: | Counterpoint |
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Critics Review
Praise for Wendell Berry “Wherever we live, however we do so, we desperately need a prophet of responsibility; and although the days of the prophets seem past to many of us, Berry may be the closest to one we have. But, fortunately, he is also a poet of responsibility. He makes one believe that the good life may not only be harder than what we’re used to but sweeter as well.” –The New York Review of Books “He is … the prophetic American voice of our day.” –Christian Science Monitor
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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