Nathan Coulter (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wendell Berry
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: Family or family life, United States or Americans, Mothers, 1910’s, Farms, farmers, or farming, Fathers, Cruelty, Kentucky, Tobacco
- Locales: Kentucky
Berry's first novel, Nathan Coulter, is a spare, lean Bildungsroman that traces the development of the young protagonist, Nathan, as he grows from childhood to adulthood in a Kentucky farming family. Narrated by Nathan in the first-person voice, the novel recounts the working lives of the Coulters, who raise tobacco on a hill farm outside Port William. The action is set in the early part of the twentieth century, when the farm work was done by hand and with mules. Each person's value was known by his labor. Nathan and his older brother, Tom, are slowly initiated into this...
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