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Fidelity

by Wendell Berry · 1992

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"Berry richly evokes Port William's farmlands and hamlets, and his characters are fiercely individual, yet mutually protective in everything they do. . . . His sentences are exquisitely constructed, suggesting the cyclic rhythms of his agrarian world."—New York Times Book Review.

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historical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Setting
KentuckyKentuckyMore like thisLess of thisAmerican SouthAmerican SouthMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 208 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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