boureemusique's review against another edition
I'd heard of Wendell Berry mostly through my years as a Unitarian Universalist. This is the first book of his I've read. Challenging and repetitive. Flawed and yet perfect in literary criticism. Sharing great, deep, slow truths. Ending in a poem remembering a place and people and a feeling of hard work and wonder and gratitude. My husband knows I'm always a mood or a book shy of running off to love the land, and this is a good springboard and companion.
katethekitcat's review
3.0
The first two non-fiction essays were amazing and thought-provoking and I'm still thinking about them, but the "fiction" stories that were clearly an autobiography really didn't work for me. Just call them memoir and be done with it.
verogs's review
Now I am heading back to the present, where I am at home with other people and other creatures I actually love and know, and where I have work and pleasure waiting to offer me the ordinary luxury of being dead to myself, alive to the present world.
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