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Stand By Me

Pocket
Engelsk
Stand By Me
Stand By Me
  • Forfatter: Wendell Berry
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 400
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9780141990248
  • Utgivelsesår: 2020
  • Bidragsyter: Berry, Wendell
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''A woven time-travelling book, about love, land, life ... Short stories that link together like trees in a forest'' Jackie Morris

On a clear Kentucky night in 1888, a young woman risks her life to save a stranger from a drunken mob. Almost a hundred years later, her great-grandson Andy climbs a hill at the edge of town, and is flooded with memories of all he has lived, seen and heard of the past century - of farmers wooing schoolteachers and soldiers trudging home from war; of the first motor car, the Great Depression and Vietnam; of neighbourly feuds and family secrets; of grief and betrayal - and of great friendship that endures for a lifetime.

These are Wendell Berry''s tales of Port William, a little farming community nestled deep in the Kentucky River valley. They unravel the story of a town over the course of four generations, lovingly chronicling the intertwined lives of the families who call it home.

Affectionate, elegiac and wry, these upliftin