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Wendell Berry

Home Economics Paperback – June 1, 1987

by Wendell Berry (Author)

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“My work has been motivated,” Wendell Berry has written, “by a desire to make myself responsibly at home in this world and in my native and chosen place.” In Home Economics, a collection of fourteen essays, Berry explores this process and continues to discuss what it means to make oneself “responsibly at home.”

His title reminds us that the very root of economics is stewardship, household management. To paraphrase Confucius, a healthy planet is made up of healthy nations that are simply healthy communities sharing common ground, and communities are gatherings of households. A measure of the health of the planet is economics—the health of its households. Any process of destruction or healing must begin at home. Berry speaks of the necessary coherence of the “Great Economy,” as he argues for clarity in our lives, our conceptions, and our communications. To live is not to pass time, but to spend time.

Whether as critic or as champion, Wendell Berry offers careful insights into our personal and national situation in a prose that is ringing and clear.

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192 pages
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North Point Press
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June 1, 1987
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5 x 0.75 x 8 inches
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0865472750
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978-0865472754
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“Wherever we live, however we do so, we desperately need a prophet of responsibility; and although the days of the prophets seem past to many of us, Berry may be the closest to one we have. But, fortunately, he is also a poet of responsibility. He makes one believe that the good life may not only be harder than what we’re used to but sweeter as well.”—The New York Review of Books

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Wendell Berry is the author of thirty-two books of essays, poetry and novels. A native Kentuckian, he lived and taught in New York and California before returning permanently to the Kentucky River region, where he farms on 125 acres in Henry County. He has received numerous awards for his work, including one from the National Institute and Academy of Arts and Letters in 1971, and, most recently, the T.S. Eliot Award.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ North Point Press (June 1, 1987)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0865472750
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0865472754
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.75 x 8 inches

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Wendell E. Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. A prolific author, he has written many novels, short stories, poems, and essays. He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, a recipient of The National Humanities Medal, and the Jefferson Lecturer for 2012. He is also a 2013 Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Berry was named the recipient of the 2013 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. On January 28, 2015, he became the first living writer to be ushered into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.

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Madalyn

Insightful, yet humble essays

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Wendell Berry is a tremendously insightful, yet humble essayist. Where many writers wishing to make similar points do so in a condemning, judgmental, assuming way, Berry offers life experience as he's lived it, retells real stories of people he knows, gives background to his own biases, which he willingly identifies and admits. Due to the nature in which he expresses his convictions, I enjoyed the process of having many of my opinions challenged. There's a lot to chew on in this book which is why I would gladly read it again and have already recommended it to a few friends and lent my copy out.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 12, 2006

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The first essay, "Letter to Wes Jackson", is the reason I recommend this book so highly to anyone who appreciates thoughtful, elegant essays. In this essay Berry asks the rhetorical question: is randomness a verifiable condition, or evidence of the limits of our ability to order things? He chooses the latter option, and then spins out the ramifications of that choice in terms of religion and science and the way we live with or abuse the world - all in three revelatory pages. The rest of the book, while not (to me) the powerful revelation that the first essay was, contains some of the finest, most deeply-considered writing you will find in essay form from any writer of any period. Berry is one of the best.

My recommendation is to buy two copies: one to hoard, and one to loan.

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Bert G. Hornback

One of the most important of Wendell Berry's many books--and ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 30, 2015

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One of the most important of Wendell Berry's many books--and one of the most eloquent. There aren't many people in our world as wise and thoughtful as Berry, and our world has no more enlightened and eloquently enlightening friend than he is.

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Johnny Ragland

Five Stars

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Great! intensive but with a subtle awareness which relates to so much of modern living on an individual basis