Library of America #381

Map and genealogical table on endpages

'"For more than sixty years, Wendell Berry has invited readers to Port William, Kentucky, a fictional setting that rivals Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, as the most richly imagined place in American literature. Library of America presents Berry's career-spanning masterpiece of storytelling for the first time as a single chronological narrative. This second volume gathers twenty-three stories and two novels that chronicle the lives of the Port William Membership from 1945 to 1978."--Dust jacket

Divide (V-J Day) -- A conversation (1943-2013) -- A clearing (1945-2014) -- One nearly perfect day (1946) -- Where did they go? (1946) -- A time out of time (1947-2015) -- Dark country (1948) -- A new day (1949) -- Mike (1939-1950) -- One of us (1950) -- Discovery of Kentucky -- Memory of Old Jack (1952) -- It wasn't me (1953) -- Boundary (1965) -- That distant land (1965) -- Who dreamt this dream? (1966) -- A friend of mine (1967) -- Wild birds (1967) -- Requirement (1970) -- Are you all right? (1973) -- An empty jacket (1974) -- Remembering (1974-76) -- Dismemberment (1974-2008) -- Fidelity (1977) -- Great interruption : the story of a famous story of Old Port William and how it ceased to be told (1935-1978)