The Memory of Old Jack
$27.72
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
8 October 1999
Summary
In the third novel in the beloved Port William series, Old Jack, born just after the American Civil War and dying in contemporary times, spends one beautiful September day in his home since birth, rememberingSharing with readers the most searing moments of Old Jack’s life, particularly his debt to his sister Nancy and her husband Ben Feltner, we learn together what Old Jack’s model of what honorable manhood and strength might be.“Few novelists treat both their characters and their readers with the kind of respect that Wendell Berry displays in this deeply moving account … The Memory of Old Jack is a slab of rich Americana.”-The New York Times Book Review
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781582430430 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1582430438 |
| Author: | Wendell Berry |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 1999 |
| Weight: | 248g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 152mm x 227mm |
| Series: | Port William |
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Wendell Berry
WENDELL BERRY (August 5, 1934 - August 31, 2026), was an essayist, novelist, and poet. During his life, he was honored with the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the John Hay Award of the Orion Society, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, among other distinctions. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama, and in 2016, he was the recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. Berry lived with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Henry County, Kentucky.
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