Soft Pictoral Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The fourth in Berry's series about the fictional town of Port William, Kentucky. After he loses his hand to a corn-picking machine, famer and journalist Andy Catlett is profoundly depressed. The weight of his loss exacerbated his perception of the foolishness and wastefullness of the industrial agriculture he has long crusaded against. as a writer and dedicated family farmer.His journey from spiritual darkness to light, from wounded alienation to healed community, constitutes an epic poem of American agriculture as much as a short novel.

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