The Wild Birds, Wendell Berry
The Wild Birds, Wendell Berry
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The Wild Birds
Six Stories of the Port William Membership

Author: Wendell Berry

Narrator: Lyle Blaker

Unabridged: 4 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/12/2024


Synopsis

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

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 listeners to the beloved people who live in Berry's fictional town of Port William, Kentucky.

About Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry, an essayist, novelist, and poet, has been honored with the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry, the John Hay Award of the Orion Society, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, among others. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama, and in 2016, he was the recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. Berry lives with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Henry County, Kentucky.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kristen on December 02, 2017

Berry comes through for me again, in this collection of short stories. I overdosed on his fiction a few years ago but have recently come back to finish all that I left unread. One of the most meaningful aspects of Berry's prose is his ability to explore kinship ties, family relationships, without be......more

Goodreads review by Christopher on April 06, 2025

Wendell Berry's fiction offers up a different kind of escapism; there are no spaceships or lasers or wizards. These are stories that, if I were to describe them (an attorney trying to fulfill a will, an old man going for a walk in the woods and remembering things, children working in fields and mess......more