What Are People For? - Brossura

Berry, Wendell

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0865474370 ISBN 13: 9780865474376

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1990

Riassunto

In the twenty-two essays collected here, Wendell Berry, whom The Christian Science Monitorcalled “the prophetic American voice of our day,” conveys a deep concern for the American economic system and the gluttonous American consumer. Berry talks to the reader as one would talk to a next-door neighbor: never preachy, he comes across as someone offering sound advice. He speaks with sadness of the greedy consumption of this country’s natural resources and the grim consequences Americans must face if current economic practices do not change drastically. In the end, these essays offer rays of hope in an otherwise bleak forecast of America's future. Berry’s program presents convincing steps for America’s agricultural and cultural survival.In the twenty-two essays collected here, Wendell Berry, whom The Christian Science Monitorcalled “the prophetic American voice of our day,” conveys a deep concern for the American economic system and the gluttonous American consumer. Berry talks to the reader as one would talk to a next-door neighbor: never preachy, he comes across as someone offering sound advice. He speaks with sadness of the greedy consumption of this country’s natural resources and the grim consequences Americans must face if current economic practices do not change drastically. In the end, these essays offer rays of hope in an otherwise bleak forecast of America's future. Berry’s program presents convincing steps for America’s agricultural and cultural survival.

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L'autore:

Wendell Berry is the author of thirty-two books of essays, poetry and novels. A native Kentuckian, he lived and taught in New York and California before returning permanently to the Kentucky River region, where he farms on 125 acres in Henry County. He has received numerous awards for his work, including one from the National Institute and Academy of Arts and Letters in 1971, and, most recently, the T.S. Eliot Award.

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Book by Berry Wendell

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• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0865474370
• ISBN 13: 9780865474376
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile