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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Jayber Crowby Wendell Berry
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:From the simple setting of his own barber shop, Jayber Crow, orphan, seminarian, and native of Port William, recalls his life and the life of his community as it spends itself in the middle of the twentieth century. Surrounded by his friends and neighbors, he is both participant and witness as the community attempts to transcend its own decline. And meanwhile Jayber learns the art of devotion and that a faithful love is its own reward. Review:"While affection and ardor suffuse this seeming effortlessness of art, Berry marries the book's host of amusing and affecting stories and characters to the practical and religious lessons he has learned and striven to communicate during his forty-year literary career. This may be Berry's finest book." Booklist (Starred Review) Review:"An elegant celebration of the redemptive power of love and community, by the prolific poet, novelist, and essayist. Jayber's hard-won acceptance of loss offers a compelling and — by contemporary standards — quite unusual climax. A precise and moving evocation both of a vanishing lifestyle and of the liberating power of faith." Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) Review:"Jayber Crow is vintage Berry, an elegiac tribute to the dignity and grace of ordinary people rising up human in an ever-more-impersonal world. It's about the redemptive power of love and community. And it's a masterpiece." Chicago Tribune Review:"It is to Berry's credit that a novel so freighted with ideas and ideology manages to project such warmth and luminosity." Publishers Weekly Review:"Jayber Crow belongs to the small company of truly remarkable characters in the American novel....This is a fine novel, unforgettable and likely to send new readers of Wendell Berry off to look for his other books." The Bloomsbury Review Review:"Read [him] with pencil in hand, make notes and hope that somehow our country and the world will soon come to see the truth that is told here." New York Times Book Review Synopsis:In his latest story about the fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, Berry introduces readers to Jayber Crow, his love for his community, and his abiding and unrequited love for one special woman. About the AuthorWendell Berry is a Kentuckian who wrote and taught in California and New York before returning to the Kentucky River region where he has lived for two decades, writing and farming on seventy-five acres in Henry County. Mr. Berry has emerged as an eloquent spokesman for conservation, common sense, and sustainable agriculture, topics he has pursued in The Unsettling of America, The Gift of Good Land, and Meeting the Expectations of the Land, which he co-edited with agricultural researcher Wes Jackson and conservationist Bruce Colman. He has also written of the Kentucky River country in his novels, including Nathan Coulter and A Place on Earth, and in the short story collection The Wild Birds, Among his collections of literary essays is Standing by Words, an exploration of language as both a source of confusion and a means to understanding. North Point Press has also published Mr. Berry's collections of poetry, A Part and The Wheel, and his collection of essays, Home Economics: Eighteen Essays. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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