Watch with Me

In these seven interrelated stories, the reader is again invited to Port William, Kentucky, the fictional community in which Wendell Berry has set his vivid characters over the entire course of his thirty-year career. Readers familiar with Nathan Coulter, A Place on Earth, The Memory of Old Jack, Remembering, and Fidelity will welcome the chance to revisit this countryside and its cast of lively characters. Newcomers are in for a particular treat. Never has Wendell Berry seemingly had so much fun as he does in telling the seven tall tales of Ptolemy Proudfoot, "a member of a large clan of…