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That distant land the collected stories

Originally published in 2005, That Distant Land brings together twenty-three stories from the Port William Membership. Arranged in their fictional chronology, the book is not an anthology so much as it is a coherent temporal mapping of this landscape over time, revealing Berry's mastery of decades o...

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Main Author: Berry, Wendell, 1934-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : [Berkeley, Calif.?] : Shoemaker & Hoard ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, Ã2004.
Series:Berry, Wendell, 1934- Port William.
Subjects:
Port William (Ky. : Imaginary place) > Fiction.
Kentucky > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Pastoral fiction, American.
Country life > Fiction.
Pastoral fiction.
Short stories.
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Table of Contents:
  • Hurt man (1888)
  • Don't send a boy to do a man's work (1891)
  • Consent (1908)
  • Pray without ceasing (1912)
  • Watch with me (1916)
  • Half-pint of old darling (1920)
  • Lost bet (1929) : Nathan Coulter (1929-1941)
  • Thicker than liquor (1930)
  • Nearly to the fair (1932)
  • Solemn boy (1934)
  • Jonquil for Mary Penn (1940)
  • Turn back the bed (1941) : World lost (1944)
  • Place on earth (1945)
  • Making it home (1945)
  • Where did they go? (1947)
  • Discovery of Kentucky (1952)
  • Memory of old Jack (1952)
  • It wasn't me (1953)
  • Boundary (1965)
  • Distant land (1965)
  • Friend of mine (1967)
  • Wild birds (1967)
  • Are you all right? (1973) : Remembering (1976)
  • Fidelity (1977) : Life story of Jayber Crow (1914-1986)
  • Inheritors (1986) .

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