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190 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
I take some blame on myself. Maybe, given the times & the fashions, it couldn't have happened in any other way but I am sorry for my gullibility at the way things turned out. I who never went to college was desperate for my children to go to college because we felt that we owed it to them. It just never occurred to us that we would lose them that way. The way of education leads away from home. This is what we learned from our children's education. In order to move up, you have got to move on. And for a short while after I knew this, I pretended that I didn't because I didn't want it to be true.It is somewhat difficult to compare this novel favorably with the rural tales by Edna Ferber or Marilynne Robinson or Willa Cather but Wendell Berry's book is still a story to be reckoned with, one that imparts to the reader how the land can nurture those who respect it & treat it gently, acting as an important, almost spiritual force in the lives of those who dwell on it.