Below are a few quotations from the beginning of Wendell Berry's novel Hannah Coulter. The novel begins at the end, takes you to the story's middle, beginning and end all within its first pages...and by then the reader is enthralled.
"Our story is the story of our place: how we married and came here, moved into this old house and made it livable again while we lived in it; how we raised our children here, and worked and hoped and paid the mortgage...how we continued,m,asking our life here day by day, after the children were gone; how we kept this place alive and plentiful..." (Hannah Coulter, 5).
"So close to the end now, what do I look forward to? 'Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.' Some morning, I pray, I'll have the good happiness of 'the man who woke up dead,' who Burley Coulter used to tell about" (Hannah Coulter, 5).
"This is my story, my giving of thanks" (Hannah Coulter, 5).
You can find a copy of Hannah Coulter on Amazon.com
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