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Berry's 10th novel features his usual setting--the fictional Port William, Kentucky. As Jayber Crow, the town barber, reflects on his life, Berry brings alive not only his hero but the entire network of relationships in a small, close-knit town, as its citizens struggle through the Great Depression and after. Jayber himself, hopelessly in love with a married woman, takes consolation in the community he has found in Fort William and in his religious faith, both of which combine to sustain him in times of trouble.
| Size | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 18.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"An elegiac celebration of the redemptive power of love and community....A precise and moving evocation...of a vanishing lifestyle...."
Levy
"While JAYBER CROW adds plenty of new history and pleasantry to the lore of Berry's Port William membership, it paints a very different picture: the decline and loss of rural America....[T]his novel provides the workings of a keen, observant mind and a complex, poetic inner life."
Whited
"JAYBER CROW is full of attractive characters and profound insights into...men and women....Berry has a sharp eye for the details that evoke his beautiful Kentucky countryside, as well as an ear that captures the nuances of country speech and other sounds....This is a fine novel, unforgettable and likely to send new readers of Wendell Berry off to look for some of [his] other 38 books."
Bloomsbury Review - William T. Hamilton
"The novel's digressive structure makes for a slow start, but by the end this melancholy barber has won both our attention and our hearts."
New York Times Book Review - Gail Gilliland (10/01/2000)
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