Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Nathan Coulter, Wendell Berry’s first book, was published in 1960 when he was twenty-seven.

Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry’s seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman character in its telling.

Published in 1967, we return to Port William during the Second World War to revisit Jayber Crow, the barber, Uncle Stanley, the gravedigger, Jarrat and Burley, the sharecroppers, and Brother Preston, the preacher, as well as Mat Feltner, his wife Margaret, and his daughter-in-law Hannah, whose son will be born after news comes that Hannah’s husband Virgil is missing.