Publisher's Note Now in paperback for the first time, Berry's popular collection of six interconnected stories traces his Port William characters through the Depression up to the 1950s.
Industry Reviews "Whether writing about wheeler's affectionate relations with an alcoholic uncle, his discovery of sex, or the farmers and their ways of being lost in the world, he makes on shiver with the sense of what we have lost." Times Literary Supplement - Jay Parini (06/26/1987)