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Hannah Coulter

In this installment of Wendell Berry's acclaimed story about the citizens of Port William Kentucky, Hannah Coulter sorts through her memories. Twice widowed, alone and in her late seventies, Hannah recalls childhood, young love and loss, raising children, and the changing of seasons. She offers her steady voice as she contemplates the deterioration of community, with wise and often fiery opinions about the way things were, are, and might have been.

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  • "In this installment of Wendell Berry's acclaimed story about the citizens of Port William Kentucky, Hannah Coulter sorts through her memories. Twice widowed, alone and in her late seventies, Hannah recalls childhood, young love and loss, raising children, and the changing of seasons. She offers her steady voice as she contemplates the deterioration of community, with wise and often fiery opinions about the way things were, are, and might have been."@en
  • ""Ignorant boys, killing each other," is just about all Nathan Coulter would tell his wife, friends, and family about the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945. Life carried on for the community of Port William, Kentucky, as some boys returned from the war and the lives of others were mourned. In her seventies, Nathan's wife, Hannah, has time now to tell of the years since the war. In Wendell Berry's unforgettable prose, we learn of the Coulter's children, of the Feltners and Branches, and how survivors "live right on.""@en
  • "In the latest installment in Wendell Berry's long story about the citizens of Port William, Hannah Coulter remembers. Her first husband, Virgil, was declared "missing in action" shortly after the Battle of the Bulge, and after she married Nathan Coulter about all he could tell Hannah about the Battle of Okinawa was "Ignorant boys, killing each other." The community was stunned and diminished by the war, with some of its sons lost forever and others returning home determined to carry on. Now, in her late seventies, twice-widowed and alone, Hannah sorts through her memories: of her childhood, of young love and loss, of raising children and the changing seasons. She turns her plain gaze to a community facing its long deterioration, where, she says, "We feel the old fabric torn, pulling apart, and we know how much we have loved each other." Hannah offers her summation: her stories and her gratitude, for the membership in Port William, and for her whole life, a part of the great continuum of love and memory, grief and strength."

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  • "Fiction"
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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Pastoral fiction"
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  • "Hannah Coulter : a novel"
  • "Hannah Coulter"
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  • "Hannah Coulter a novel"@en
  • "Hannah Coulter a novel"
  • "Hannah Coulter a Novel"@en

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