Jayber Crow
A Novel
$31.10
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
30 August 2001
Summary
Jayber Crow returns to Port William in 1932 as the town barber in the seventh book in the Port William series, armed with questions he cannot answer but must live out—a mystery that may take longer than a lifetime.
“This is a book about Heaven,” says Jayber Crow, “but I must say too that … I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell.” It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the town’s barber.
Orphaned at age te…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781582431604 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1582431604 |
| Author: | Wendell Berry |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 30 August 2001 |
| Weight: | 498g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 155mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Port William |
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Praise for Jayber Crow
“An almost perfect fiction, a sublime meditation on how irrevocable loss is redeemed through a renewed sense of kinship with the land and the past … A beautiful and ennobling book.”
“Mr. Berry writes elegantly, effortlessly balancing tragedy and a quiet, sly humor.”
“The family are caught on the wheel of nature, which is at once blindingly beautiful and unwittingly cruel . . . The narrative is stunning, the natural scene beautifully evoked.”
“A precise and moving evocation both of a vanishing lifestyle and of the liberating power of faith.” —Kirkus Reviews
Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
(August 5, 1934 – August 31, 2026)
Wendell Berry was an essayist, novelist, and poet. Throughout his life, he received numerous accolades, including:
- T. S. Eliot Prize
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
- John Hay Award of the Orion Society
- Dayton Literary Peace Prize Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award
In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama. 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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