A World Lost - Hardcover

Berry, Wendell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1887178228 ISBN 13: 9781887178228

Verlag: Counterpoint, 1996

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Book by Berry Wendell

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It is the summer of 1944, and nine-year-old Andy Catlett is engrossed in the big easy countryside near Port William, Kentucky - the clear cool water of Chatham Spring, fields full of tumblebugs and meadowlarks, and a sky so huge that it seems "a great gape of vision." But calamity strikes Andy's world on a hot July afternoon when his Uncle Andrew is murdered.
Life's direct simplicity is suddenly gone, replaced by sadness, loss, and the mystery surrounding Uncle Andrew's death. No one tells the boy why his uncle and namesake was murdered, and the question follows Andy into manhood.
Wendell Berry tackles the slippery nature of truth as Andy gathers fragments of recollection years after the murder, accumulating details about his uncle's death and life. Through the process he comes to learn the limits of fact, that "the truth about us, though it must lie all around us every day, is mostly hidden from us, like birds' nests in the woods."

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"Brilliantly detailed characters and subtle social observations distinguish Berry's unassuming but powerful fifth novel....This is simple, soul-satisfying storytelling". Publishers Weekly

"An elegiac celebration of the end of innocence....A sharp portrait of a small farming town nursing its secrets over several decades". Kirkus Reviews

Andy Catlett is nine years old when his Uncle Andrew is murdered, and the tragedy destroys his sense of identity and order. Still haunted by the death as an adult, Andy works to gather details of the tragedy from the fragile memories of family, neighbors, and friends.

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• Verlag: Counterpoint
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1887178228
• ISBN 13: 9781887178228
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160