The Long-Legged House

First published in 1969 and out of print for more than twenty-five years, The Long-Legged House was Wendell Berry's first collection of essays, the inaugural work introducing many of the central issues that have occupied him over the course of his career. Three essays at the heart of this volume―"The Rise," "The Long-Legged House," and "A Native Hill"―are essays of homecoming and memoir, as the writer finds his home place, his native ground, his place on earth. As he later wrote, "What I stand for is what I stand on," and here we see him beginning the acts of rediscovery and resettling.

Author: Wendell Berry
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: 05/15/2012
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781619020016
ISBN10: 1619020017
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American | General

About the Author
Wendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For over forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.