In this moving and inspiring book, Wendell Berry, a poet and writer of distinguished fiction, honestly confronts the facts, the origins, and the results of a white Kentuckian's attitude toward black men. In the process, he has much to say to all men about the human condition.
Wendell Berry grew up in Kentucky where his family have farmed for generations and where he now lives on a small farm near the town of Port Royal. He is a man who has the imagination and honesty to observe clearly, to penetrate appearances, to discover the facts, and the grace to write of his discoveries with beauty and wisdom.
In explaining the urgent need out of which this book is written Wendell Berry has said: "I should write something of my history as a white man, the sense of my whiteness forming out of and ...Read More
In this moving and inspiring book, Wendell Berry, a poet and writer of distinguished fiction, honestly confronts the facts, the origins, and the results of a white Kentuckian's attitude toward black men. In the process, he has much to say to all men about the human condition.
Wendell Berry grew up in Kentucky where his family have farmed for generations and where he now lives on a small farm near the town of Port Royal. He is a man who has the imagination and honesty to observe clearly, to penetrate appearances, to discover the facts, and the grace to write of his discoveries with beauty and wisdom.
In explaining the urgent need out of which this book is written Wendell Berry has said: "I should write something of my history as a white man, the sense of my whiteness forming out of and ...Read More
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