Port William series
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1)
A place on Earth
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2)
Farming, a hand book
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3)
Nathan Coulter
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4)
The wild birds: six stories of the Port William Membership
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Series
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Embittered by the loss of his hand in an accident and his growing alienation from his wife and children, Andy Catlett flees to San Francisco where his midnight walk through the city and accompanying memories initiate his emotional recovery"--NoveList.
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The discovery of Kentucky
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Fidelity: five stories
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Watch with me: and six other stories of the yet-remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and his wife, Miss Minnie, nee Quinch
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Author
Series
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
At the age of 60, a Kentucky man decides to find out why half a century earlier his favorite uncle was shot, a crime for which the killer spent only two years in jail. The man was nine years old when the incident occurred and nobody would give him a reason.
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Two more stories of the Port William membership
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11)
The memory of Old Jack
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Language
English
Description
"Jayber Crow, born in Goforth, Kentucky, orphaned at age ten, began his search as a "pre-ministerial student" at Pigeonville College." "Eventually, after the flood of 1937, Jayber becomes the barber of the small community of Port William, Kentucky. From behind that barber chair he lives out the questions that drove him from seminary and begins to accept the gifts of community that enclose his answers. The chair gives him a perfect perch from which...
15)
Andy Catlett: early travels
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16)
A place in time: twenty stories of the Port William membership
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Series
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"At the age of eighty, Andy Catlett is preparing himself to join the whole Membership of Port William, which includes those alive as well as those departed who still seem vividly alive. As he looks back on his own life through thirteen stories that range from his earliest childhood memories to the present day, from 1945 to 2001, How It Went reveals Andy at his most loving and retrospective, coming to the end of his days surrounded by the love and...