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Watch With Me - and Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoo and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Nee Quinch (Paperback)
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Watch With Me - and Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoo and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Nee Quinch (Paperback)
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List price R454
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Discovery Miles 3 770
You Save R77 (17%)
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This volume of six linked stories and the novella from which the
book derives its title is set in Port William from 1908 to the
Second World War. Here Wendell Berry introduces two of his more
indelible and poignant characters, Ptolemy Proudfoot and his wife
Miss Minnie, remarkable for the comic and affectionate range
that-with the mastery of this consummate storyteller working at the
height of his powers-here approaches the Shakespearean. Tol
Proudfoot is huge, outsized, in the tradition of the mythic. The
three-hundred-pound farmer, personally imposing and unkempt, is
also the most graceful of presences, reserved and gallant toward
his tiny wife, the ninety-pound schoolteacher. Their contrasts are
humorous, of course, and recall the tall tales of rural Americana.
In the novella Watch with Me, we are given a story of such depth,
breadth, and importance it earns being listed as one of the most
important short stories written in the American language during the
twentieth century. "Wendell Berry writes with a good husbandman's
care and economy . . . His stories are filled with gentle humor."
The New York Times Book Review "Berry is the master of earthy
country living seen through the eyes of laconic farmers . . . He
makes his stories shine with meaning and warmth." The Christian
Science Monitor "A small treasure of a book . . . part of a long
line that descends from Chaucer to Katherine Mansfield to William
Trevor." Chicago Tribune
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