On 2010-03-06 June R. Bishop, wrote:
Wendall Berry is one of America´s greatest authors and philosophers. this is one of many novels he has written based on the fictional town of Port William and its inhabitants. These people become as close friends as one reads Berry´s sensitive accounts of their lives-joys and sorrows. A lifelong reader ,I consider this one of the best novels ever,and also recommend another in the series,Jayber Crow. . And summed up by saying Hannah Coulter. Currently Hannah Coulter: A Novel has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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Counterpoint claimed ´Ignorant boys, killing each other,´ is just about all Nathan Coulter would tell his wife about the Battle of Okinawa in November 1945. Life continued as some boys returned from the war while the lives of others were mourned. Nathan’s wife, Hannah, has time now to tell of the years since the war. In her eighties, twice widowed and alone, Hannah shares 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 own 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 membership in Port William. We see her whole life as part of the great continuum of love and memory, grief and strength. Hannah Coulter is the latest installment in Wendell Berry’s long story about the citizens of Port William, Kentucky. In his unforgettable prose, we learn of the Coulters’ children, of the Feltners and Branches, and how survivors ´live right on.´
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