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The Wild Birds
- Author
- Wendell Berry
- Narrator
- Lyle Blaker
- Publisher
- ChristianAudio.com
- Publish Date
- 12 March 2024
- Run Time
- 4 hours 34 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
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Details
- Author
- Wendell Berry
- Narrator
- Lyle Blaker
- Duration
- 4 hours 34 minutes
- Release Date
- 12 March 2024
- ISBN
- 9781545923740
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- ChristianAudio.com
- Genre
- Short stories, Fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Sense of place
Synopsis
"Berry is a superb writer. His sense of what makes characters tick is extraordinary . . . Short stories don't get any better than these." —PeopleAs 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.
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