Published in 1967, we return to Port William during the Second World War to revisit Jayber Crow, the barber, Uncle Stanley, the gravedigger, Jarrat and Burley, the sharecroppers, and Brother Preston, the preacher, as well as Mat Feltner, his wife Margaret, and his daughter-in-law Hannah, whose son will be born after news comes that Hannah's husband Virgil is missing. "The earth is the genius of our life," Wendell Berry writes here. "The final questions and their answers lie serenely coupled in it."
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Published in 1967, we return to Port William during the Second World War to revisit Jayber Crow, the barber, Uncle Stanley, the gravedigger, Jarrat and Burley, the sharecroppers, and Brother Preston, the preacher, as well as Mat Feltner, his wife Margaret, and his daughter-in-law Hannah, whose son will be born after news comes that Hannah's husband Virgil is missing. "The earth is the genius of our life," Wendell Berry writes here. "The final questions and their answers lie serenely coupled in it."
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Near fine in near fine jacket. Printed paper wraps in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has mild toning to spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ has toning to spine and rear panel.
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Illustrated by Front Porch Rural View Cover. Very Good. 5x8" VERY GOOD Condition PAPERBACK, clean, solid, bright; Black spine & cover titles on orange & earth toned, decorated cover porch railing view of blue river, tan farmlands, grey sky..; 317pg pages; Rhythms of the novel are the rhythms of the land.."a splendid, warm hearfelt novel about countrymen. pleasure read...Mat Feltner struggles to accept the loss of his son as the rest of the Port William community watches the progress of World War II.
My favorite Berry novel. This revised (shortened by about a third) edition is an endorsement of family, neighbors and community. You won't look at the world the same way again.