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.
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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.
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New. This is the story of a man's love for his community and his abiding and unrequited love for Mattie Chatham. Sent to an orphanage at the age of ten, Jayber grows up knowing of loneliness and want. With the flood of 1937 he returns to his native Port William to become the town's barber. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 512. 2001. New ed. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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New. Wendell Berry's new novel describes a man who has come to himself, led and redeemed by love, ''so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself. '' We meet him as someone whose experience presents him with only questions having no answers. When he speaks his doubt, his Bible college professor does not calm his fears. ''You cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out--perhaps a little at a time. '' And so, in time, Jayber becomes the bachelor barber of Port William, Kentucky, just a few miles from his birthplace. He quietly lives out the questions and begins to discover that he indeed no longer belongs only to himself--that who he is is everybody's business and that he is involved in an economy of love as real as the more mundane one of cutting hair. The inhabitants of Berry's Port William are known to us: they resemble our own neighbors and our own enemies, who make us crazy because they are so different from us, and yet so the same. And, like them, somehow ''we are perfected, beyond time by one another's love, compassion and forgiveness. '' 384 pp.
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New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 384 p. Port William. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
This is a book that I come back to from time to time, to read some of my favorite passages again. I will be re-reading it again in the future.
Like many of Berry's books, there are multiple story lines, a gradual evolution to the story, and turns and unexpected surprises. There are chapters where you may ask: "what was the point of that?" But I can think of few books so rewarding to the reader upon completion.
Iniedivinie
Dec 24, 2009
Profound
Quietly & surprisingly & entertainingly leads you into people's lives & perceptions, making you care & deeply appreciate the author's insights into what matters during our time on this earth.
puzzled
Jan 23, 2009
This book, and its author, have been around for a long time. I am just discovering all that Wendell Berry has to say about rural American in the 1930's and 40's and what he finds of value in his native place. Berry's social criticism resonates with me.
