Christianaudio teamed up with David C Cook to give away an unabridged audiobook download of Hannah Coulter ($8.99 Kindle; $14.98/$10.49 Audible), by Wendell Berry, narrated by Susan Denaker, for free during the month of August. Unlike many of their previous free offerings, this one is a novel that is classified as literary fiction, rather than religious in content. The paper/Kindle edition is from Counterpoint (which bought Shoemaker & Hoard), which specializes in fiction, literature, and poetry in addition to nonfiction, including history, memoir, biography, and nature. If you've been a follower here, you should have The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry, as it was offered free on Kindle the first of June. I've been eyeing his Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food ($8.84), with an introduction by Michael Pollan, ever since getting the book of essays,Chronologically, this is the eighth book in Berry's loosely ordered Port William series, which take place in the same rural Kentucky in which this award-winning author resides. Port William is a fictitious town, near a bend in the river and those that like maps will find one on the author's website, along with a family tree that covers the people who populate his fiction. You'll find eight more of Berry's audiobooks (all of them that ChristianAudio has recorded), marked down to $4.98 each for this month only, at the bottom of the order page. Six of them are from the Port William series, plus two that make up the Port William Membership series. The same two titles are missing on Kindle (only one is in print), but there 30 titles on Kindle (including several poetry volumes), although only The Memory of Old Jack is currently at a bargain price (
Book DescriptionGet your free audio download HERE and scroll down the page for the discounted titles. The checkout process is very streamlined (a coupon code is no longer required), as is the download process (no longer do you have to download each part of the book separately). You can also send a gift download of the free audiobook to someone else!
"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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