Andy Catlett: Early Travels

Berry, Wendell

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9781585479931: Andy Catlett: Early Travels

ISBN 10: 1585479934 ISBN 13: 9781585479931

Publisher: Center Point Pub, 2007

In this stirring and heartwarming tale set during the Christmas of 1943‚ we follow nine–year–old Andy Catlett as he embarks on a bus trip to visit his grandparents’ homes unaccompanied. Andy not only considers this an adventure‚ but his first step into adulthood. Andy Catlett is a sweet remembrance of a time and a way of life that has all but ceased to exist. The old ways are in retreat‚ modern life is crowding everything in its path‚ and now‚ as an aged Andy looks back‚ he recalls the stories of neighbors and friends‚ and generously shares them with his reader. In this world‚ the land is a bond‚ connecting the living and the dead in a perpetual community.

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About the Author:

Berrys themes are reflections of his life: friends, family, the farm, the nature around us as well as within. He speaks strongly for himself and sometimes for the lost heart of the country. As he has borne witness to the world for eight decades, what he offers us now in this new collection of poems is of incomparable value.

From AudioFile:

For fifty years, Wendell Berry has created stories of life in the fictional town of Port William, Kentucky and shared them with readers. Although fictional, we recognize the characters . . .as real our own ancestors. This memoir-like tale gives us a view of that point in time when we slid from an agrarian to an industrialized society. After Christmas 1943, 9-year-old Andy Catlett makes his first solo visit to Port William. Paul Michael, as an elderly Andy, reflects on that memorable visit to his paternal grandparents, farmers, and his maternal ones, who lived in town. Speaking in a voice full of down-home wisdom, Michael creates an atmosphere in which we can imagine sitting in the company of our own grandpa, soaking up his history, which, by extension, is our own. N.E.M. � AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright � AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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