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The Hidden Wound

Name: The Hidden Wound
Author: Wendell Berry
ISBN: 9780865473584

by Wendell Berry

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Overview

In this beautifully written book-length essay, Berry explores the “hidden wound” of racism and its pernicious effects on white people in America. Rigorous, honest, and deeply felt, The Hidden Wound is essential reading for anyone hoping to understand the problem of race in this country.

A book length essay on racism and its effects on our society. ". . . one of the most humane, honest, liberating books of our time." The Village Voice

About the Author, Wendell Berry

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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Editorials

Guy Davenport

"The brunt of the book is to wake us up, page after page, from stupidity. 'It is a kind of death,' Montaigne said, 'to avoid the pain of well doing, or trouble of well living.' Wendell Berry makes that observation rip the air like an alarm clock."" Guy Davenport, Life Magazine

Hayden Carruth

"Berry has produced one of the most humane, honest, liberating works of our time. It is a beautiful book. More than that, it has become at one stroke an essential book. Every American who can read at all should read it."— Hayden Carruth, The Village Voice.

Joan Joffe Hall

"One of the most impressive aspects of Berry's book is the authentic simplicity of his style, the directness with which that style can accommodate Tolstoy, Malcolm X, work songs, anecdotes, speculation, and polemic indignation.... The strength of this book is its connecting America's two major problems: the exploiting of men and land; it deserves as wide an audience as possible."— Joan Joffe Hall, Louisville Courier-Journal

Larry McMurty

"A profound, passionate, crucial piece of writing.... Few readers, and I think, no writers will be able to read it without a small pulse of triumph at the temples: the strange, almost communal sense of triumph one feels when someone has written truly well.... The statement it makes is intricate and beautiful, sad but strong."— Larry McMurty, The Washington Post