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      The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership

      by Wendell Berry
      Published
      Dec 1986
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      Literary Literary
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      Six masterful short stories that span three decades in the fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, revealing the deep humanity and interconnected lives of its unforgettable characters through the eyes of Wheeler Catlett

      As part of Counterpoint's celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry comes this reissue of his 1986 classic, The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership. Those stories include "Thicker Than Liquor", "Where Did They Go?", "It Wasn't Me", "The Boundary", "That Distant Land", and the titular "The Wild Birds."

      Spanning more than three decades, from 1930 to 1967, these wonderful stories follow Wheeler Catlett, and reintroduce readers to the beloved people who live in Berry's fictional town of Port William, Kentucky.

      "Berry is a superb writer. His sense of what makes characters tick is extraordinary . . . Short stories don't get any better than these." —People

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      Nov 1989 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0865472173
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