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  • A Place on Earth

  • A Novel
  • By: Wendell Berry
  • Narrated by: Paul Michael
  • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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By: Wendell Berry
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Summary

The rhythms of this novel are the rhythms of the land. A Place on Earth resonates with variations played on themes of change; looping transitions from war into peace, winter into spring, browning flood destruction into greening fields, absence into presence, lost into found.
©2001 Wendell Berry (P)2008 christianaudio.com
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Slow, intruiging, solmn

Initially I struggled with keeping track om the characteristics of the characters (always harder with audio books I believe), which meant I lost some of the nuances of the initial stories. Eventually I felt like I got to know them and loved how it all came together into a community of people with a full range of behaviors and feelings.

The only thing that annoyed me a bit was that I felt like the I didn't get to know the women better. It would have been a even more rewarding portrait of this place on earth. The actor used pretty much the same "soft" voice for all the women. I think it would have helped to give them more character and breadth.

Still, lovely book. Enjoyed it.

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