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What are people for? : essays / by Wendell Berry.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2010Description: 210 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781582434872
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 814/.3 23
LOC classification:
  • AC8 .B4743 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Damage -- Healing -- A remarkable man -- Harry Caudill in the Cumberlands -- A few words in favor of Edward Abbey -- Wallace Stegner and the great community -- A poem of difficult hope -- Style and grace -- Writer and region -- The responsibility of the poet -- God and country -- A practical harmony -- An argument for diversity -- What are people for? -- Waste -- Economy and pleasure -- The pleasures of eating -- The work of local culture -- Why I am not going to buy a computer -- Feminism, the body, and the machine -- Word and flesh -- Nature as measure.
Summary: Contains a collection of essays that discuss the American economic system and rural culture. Explores agrarianism, environmentalism, art, and consumerism in America.
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BOOK Wasatch County Library Second Floor General NonFiction 814.3 Berry (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34301002103424
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Damage -- Healing -- A remarkable man -- Harry Caudill in the Cumberlands -- A few words in favor of Edward Abbey -- Wallace Stegner and the great community -- A poem of difficult hope -- Style and grace -- Writer and region -- The responsibility of the poet -- God and country -- A practical harmony -- An argument for diversity -- What are people for? -- Waste -- Economy and pleasure -- The pleasures of eating -- The work of local culture -- Why I am not going to buy a computer -- Feminism, the body, and the machine -- Word and flesh -- Nature as measure.

Library Journal, 4/1/1990.

Publisher's Weekly, 3/2/1990.

Contains a collection of essays that discuss the American economic system and rural culture. Explores agrarianism, environmentalism, art, and consumerism in America.

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